From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 13:26:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu (saturn.cs.uml.edu [129.63.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3699537B43E for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:26:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu) Received: (from acahalan@localhost) by saturn.cs.uml.edu (8.11.0/8.11.2) id f3PKQ2a229156; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:26:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" Message-Id: <200104252026.f3PKQ2a229156@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX To: ajh3@chmod.ath.cx (Andrew Hesford) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:26:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan), questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010425145221.B74594@cec.wustl.edu> from "Andrew Hesford" at Apr 25, 2001 02:52:21 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford writes: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:47:21AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >> Albert D. Cahalan types: >>> The system is what comes on your CD-ROM. >> >> And this is important because it means you've *got* a backup of that >> software. Your backup strategy can take advantage of that if you want. >> >> I'd say that most Linux rpm's should put software in /usr/local. An Most 3rd party ones perhaps, if not in /opt. > I should also redirect you to my earlier post. "Site-specific" (or > "locally installed" if you read the Linux FSSTND) does NOT mean locally > compiled. No kidding. It includes the script your brother mailed you. It includes the old Xenix binary you saved. It includes the code you wrote and compiled on a different machine. It does not include something you compiled via an automated process that grabs the same source code for everyone and compiles that source in the same way for everyone. This is about backups mostly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message