On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:59:52PM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Again, I should have stated "rpmbuild ~ source" prior. > But since ebulid does binary installs, it does fit ~ DPKG ~ RPM. > > As far as "Gentoo sadists," I run Gentoo as well for developer > environments. Leading edge development on Fedora is too far behind > (and anyone who develops on RHEL doesn't realize the mistake they are > making -- RHEL is for sustainment-cycle development). Gentoo is > ideal in comparison.
Hmm, good name for gentoo users. :) > I was happy when Daniel decided to finally do a "BSD ports-like" > Linux distro, and then he did it on steroids. I love Portage and > wish even package-based distros would use it to build select > "software stacks" atop of their package-based cores. If I wnt something newer than debian provides, I grab the source for the existing package, get the latest upstream source, and update the package and build it. Really pretty darn simple in most cases. For the rest binary packages are the sane way to operate. > E.g., Perl/CPAN, Python, Apache/Mods, Java, etc... For cpan stuff, dh-make-perl is a much better solution. You get an up to date cpan module, packaged to fit perfectly in the existing packaging system. You don't want more than one packaging system on one machine. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
