From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 15 15:39:06 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 1FA9116A403 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:39:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8F513C44C for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:39:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so162020pyh for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:39:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=Oud+GJNA00N84mYUUMFtOXclOhKJNc2izB5WqBVDUzyd5emNubkZsnN0Q7iMtQOwWgZrXOgHVjYIZHf1/qaa0yYVO1WDzuTc3tjSA7NYJ8nXvA/qgPd778dWYKYAb4PWgP/A/CijFhzfA48bO4nKXgmoYr8MF3RbMvEcGrvSbjs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=ZngwisQ/DUC5tYGvYTniwdsCSoS4wS0OkBVV8RvjSkbUudCfR9BiU/3MfMZDIuooFkVsJcYoiCZ6wKsS7Uw7rGRhMw78dEdKInF19AGyt5tKcjo29oKp/Xl+6GxR9yxn4kv3s8AEEd6lPhrPRqzKnZsaF5+LLqLOFXoaoUUAuts= Received: by 10.64.53.20 with SMTP id b20mr1052442qba.1179243543819; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1? ( [217.206.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e10sm684841qbe.2007.05.15.08.39.02; Tue, 15 May 2007 08:39:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Evans To: Mike Meyer 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4Kx1yhSrbI6YgWg+vGeB" Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:39:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1179243541.1234.11.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , 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 15:39:06 -0000 --=-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 typ= ed: > > Peter Jeremy writes: > > > Mike Meyer 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 >