I've been doing that with Caldera and RH - use freshmeat and get the SRPMs and build them for my system. If the SRPM is not available I use checkinstall to make an RPM and install it. My concern about Gentoo is that it uses a "non standard" - note the quotes!!! - system as compared to RH and others so if Gentoo doesn't update a package you either fall back to RPMs or wait for them. I like RPM because it lets me track what's on my system.
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > >>I had some time yesterday and spent it browsing the Gentoo web site and >>came up with a question about the updates. Since I usually install a >>distro and then modify it as needed it sounds like Gentoo might be worth >>me >>taking a look at. I see that Gentoo uses a modified ports system >>according to the web site. Since most of the rest of the Linux world (or >>the part I inhabit anyway - RH <G>) uses RPM how is the availablity of >>packages for Gentoo? I know one of the problems with Caldera was that not >>many packages were released in RPMs for it. I guess I could run RPM on a >>Gentoo system as well as the Ports system but then you have two things to >>keep up with. What do you do if a package is not available in the Gentoo >>ports system? >> >> >> >> > I use freshmeat to locate packages that I want and build it from source. > This way I make the decission what version goes onto my system. If > something breaks, I then have an Idea as to what "I did" and usually > can then fix it<G> > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
