From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 6 9:13:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE0D37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8B643E09 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 09:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 4989A534D; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 18:13:40 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Igor Sobrado Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: software in /usr/contrib References: <200207061436.g66EajE32402@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 06 Jul 2002 18:13:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200207061436.g66EajE32402@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Igor Sobrado 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