On Thu, Feb 12, 2004, David M. Fetter wrote:

> Ok, so I have two more questions here.  :-)
> 
David,

> 5.  Will OpenPKG work with apt-get (i.e. we setup our own repository and
> use apt on our remote hosts to grab their appropriate updates)?
> 
We tried and failed. Besides some technical difficulties we found that
apt-get seems to work only good with binaries which violates OpenPKG
philosophy preferring building from source. I'm not sure if we can ever
get this to work properly.

> 6.  Is it stable to use the current src rpm's with openpkg 1.3 or is it
> advised to wait until 2.0 is released as stable?  We do desire good
> stability in our environment.
> 
Regarding OpenPKG itself I would recommend testing CURRENT now and
deploying 2.0. There is a obvious risk in hundrets of vendor packages
being updated which are not under our control. So anything can happen.
Our build farm tests build, install and erase only. Labs can only test
a fraction of the overall possible functions. Only practice can tell. I
believe this is the same risk as you would have doing the "configure;
make; make install" triple manually or download/ purchase any BSD system
or Linux distro. If you prefer the "bugs already known" path then go for
1.3.

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