Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:39:01 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Cc: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DPS Initial Ideas Message-ID: <1179243541.1234.11.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <17993.53372.749195.300658@bhuda.mired.org> 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> <17993.53372.749195.300658@bhuda.mired.org>
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--=-4Kx1yhSrbI6YgWg+vGeB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 11:23 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <861whigyua.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> typ= ed: > > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes: > > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes: > > > [Linux package systems] > > > > As far as I know, none of them handle updates from source at all. I= n > > > > fact, dealing with sources seems to be a noticable weakness for the= m. > > > This pretty much rules them out then. > > It would, if it were true. It isn't. >=20 > Except it is. >=20 > > apt-get --build source package_name >=20 > That doesn't update from sources, that just builds a package. You're > still stuck updating from packages. >=20 > 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. >=20 > <mike Of course Gentoo does do this [updating from source], being as it is a rip-off of freebsd ports. I haven't used it since the (fairly) early days when portage was written as a series of bash scripts. I'm fairly sure they must have improved it since then - it made portupgrade look positively snappy. Unsurprisingly, everything was/is controlled by adding options (mainly USE_FLAGS - eg '+gtk2 -kde') to make.conf. Tom --=-4Kx1yhSrbI6YgWg+vGeB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGSdQSlcRvFfyds/cRApipAJ43M6fLTwJC5hznj3UJ5308OoicEgCfaXoq yiTRoj3nBIlpd1Nxs5l5Ork= =QZS8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4Kx1yhSrbI6YgWg+vGeB--
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