On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:51:31AM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Simple for a few packages, yes. But distributed, no.
It is simple to have your own repository for packages and have all machines upgrade those packages from there. I do that too. > But why not a ports-based system for managing source builds? > That was my point, and why I like the Portage solution. Because it is a huge freaking waste of time. Someone still has to update the scripts for each package in a ports system and until someone does that you still won't get that new upstream version. Ports don't solve ANYTHING that isn't already solved by apt (other than wasting tons of cpu cycles for no reason). This is of course entirely off topic for LPIC, since I don't expect any linux admin to be running gentoo, or for that matter necesarily building packages themselves to update what the distribution isn't new enough for. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
