Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is simple to have your own repository for packages and have all > machines upgrade those packages from there. I do that too.
Sigh, not my point. I was saying a distributed source build. I'm not talking about binary (or even source) packages. > 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. It's fairly easy to do so. > Ports don't solve ANYTHING that isn't already solved by apt > (other than wasting tons of cpu cycles for no reason). Then BSD is useless, just like Gentoo, eh? The portage toolset is nice when packaging "gets in the way" of dependencies. > 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. I disagree. Gentoo has its place in enterprises. They just are typically in the leading edge development arena. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
