Date: 06 Jul 2002 18:13:39 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: software in /usr/contrib Message-ID: <xzp3cuwsuks.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <200207061436.g66EajE32402@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> References: <200207061436.g66EajE32402@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
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Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> writes: > Moving some software in *strong evolution* (bzip, gzip, zip, Perl, > and Tcl/Tk) to /usr/contrib will be useful to avoid some problems > that we saw in the last years in other Unices like Solaris. A > description of some of those problems is in [bin/40222]. I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve. > This practice has been adopted by BSD/OS and HP-UX at least. Both of these, as well as Solaris, are commercial OSes distributed in binary form, where OS upgrades are done by applying binary patches or installing a new binary release on top of the existing system, once every couple of years or so. FreeBSD is an open-source OS with a completely different distribution model, where upgrades are done by building a new system from updates sources, and happen quite frequently. You can't really compare the two. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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