From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 15:24:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6A216A400 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E83FC13C44B for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 39429 invoked by uid 1001); 15 May 2007 15:23:41 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Tue, 15 May 2007 11:23:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <17993.53372.749195.300658@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:23:40 -0400 To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?=) In-Reply-To: <861whigyua.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20070512004209.GA12218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <17989.8202.624522.136573@bhuda.mired.org> <20070512090935.GA13929@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <86r6pkzhso.fsf@dwp.des.no> <46479A4A.1070103@tomjudge.com> <86wszbyko7.fsf@dwp.des.no> <17992.26100.876067.671769@bhuda.mired.org> <20070515102630.GA1178@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <861whigyua.fsf@dwp.des.no> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) From: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DPS Initial Ideas X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:24:16 -0000 In <861whigyua.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav type= d: > Peter Jeremy writes: > > Mike Meyer writes: > > [Linux package systems] > > > As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all.= In > > > fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for t= hem. > > This pretty much rules them out then. > It would, if it were true. It isn't. Except it is. > apt-get --build source package=5Fname That doesn't update from sources, that just builds a package. You're still stuck updating from packages. Further, like the rpm command, this doesn't deal with dependencies, other than to complain if they aren't met. This means that using it to deal with sources is about as pleasant as using rpm to install binary packages. Further, there doesn't appear to be anything like make.conf to make it easy to tailor the build process to meet the users requirements. =09=09=09http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more informatio= n.