Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:43:45 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: testing PKGNG Message-ID: <20110914084345.GB22145@azathoth.lan> In-Reply-To: <20110913211619.GA46319@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20110913211619.GA46319@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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--A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:16:19PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > Sergio wrote: >=20 > >I moved all my servers (about 40) to the pkgng (new generation) > >package/port=20 > >system, and I can say that it is amazing... it is not yet finish, and > >have some > >minor "issues", but works very well, and is lightning fast.. =20 > > > >It is almost the same as "pacman" (from Archlinux).. you build a=20 > >"repository" and install packages from that repository. when you > >update the repository, the other servers can do an "upgrade"..=20 > >you do not have to have the ports tree in each server, and > >you build the ports only on the master server.... > > > >in the master server, there is a full gnome2 (with 842 dependencies) > >that install right on the shelf with only one command: pkg install > >gnome2 > >now I have a full functional server runing gnome, libreoffice, inkscape > >hplip, cups printing, gdm... in about 30 minutes from internet.... >=20 > I am extremely interested by what you are saying here. Do you mean that > you can find somewhere precompiled packages that you can install in 30mn > or that you use packages compiled on a master server? Of course the > difference is that if you have just one machine in the basement instead > of a server farm, the point of view is not the same ... >=20 > By the way if you mention that pkgng shares something to some penguinist > system, beware it will be villified by some guardians of the orthodoxy > who are quite vocal. Anyways if it is indeed fast it will make a happy > difference with the present pkg-* tools.=20 >=20 >=20 no pkgng do ont share something penguinist at all :) pkgng is just the result of long studies and reflexion about packaging (stu= dying what is done elsewhere: apt/dpkg, yum/rpm, pacman, aix, solaris, netbsd, op= enbsd and how to have something that try to take the good ideas from there, try n= ot to take the *over engineered* complicated part. And most important try to do i= t the FreeBSD way: which means it should work with the ports tree as-is (and help improve it in the future), so we are safe no real penguinism in pkgng :) Bapt --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk5waUEACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwuBwCdGoaTC3fIZo0iV/Avr0LUP5Oj hisAnRIoZr6XWFFpkqui0LzLzoTyRAtS =XI/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --A6N2fC+uXW/VQSAv--
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