Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 22:09:18 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey Message-ID: <20060524220703.K62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <f34ca13c0605240233t1b3555dbn39f34b4d598d5bb7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060523120100.37D2B16A54F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz> <f34ca13c0605240233t1b3555dbn39f34b4d598d5bb7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 24 May 2006, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 23/05/06, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote: >> All that said FreeBSD's ports are still the reference >> implementation, head-and-shoulders better than up2date, yum, rpm, >> apt-get, or anything else out there. > > I guess you haven't looked at OpenBSD's branch of FreeBSD's > pkg_add(1), where they've added some cool support for automatic port > updating, which seems to work quite well: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-espie/ Come to that, gentoo's emerge system is pretty good, having learnt a lot from FreeBSD's ports system, and then gone a few steps further. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew McNaughton http://www.scoop.co.nz/ andrew@scoop.co.nz Mobile: +61 422 753 792 pgp keyid: 1C7A8CFD -- "We are trying to figure out how you conduct a war against something other than a nation-state and how ... you conduct a war in countries that you are not at war with," -- Donald Rumsfeld, 27 Jan 2006
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