On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 02:29, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> Posted this, i did, many times before:
i know :). and good advice it always has been.
at the time, the reason i didn't do that (apart from the
trouble of figuring out SPEC files), was that i was actually mostly
developing on FreeBSD (because that's what the company had standardized
on, not my choice, but a good choice anyway, just not linux). so i
was building everything from source with huge scripts that did
everything i needed (i mean everything, including building openssl,
generating a self-signed cert if there wasn't one, importing an old
cert if there was one already, building in the debugger (DBG)
stuff, possibly rebuilding mysql or postgres if the latest versions
of those were different from the installed versions (updating the
file formats, backing up and restoring data was usually done manually),
etc.
it was a terrible, ugly ungainly, rickety system. it was the
debugger that killed me there. if i hadn't needed that, i would
just have built things from the ports... and i only needed the
debugger on one system (development), the production systems didn't
need it. but i needed all the systems to be easily updateable
with the same process. feature bloat is a terrible thing :).
lately i'm working more with linux (the old system is still
in use, it's just not very well maintained and getting more;
rickety with every new release of relevant software) and i've
successfully avoided building stuff from source so far. that
debugger is going to force me to do it now though.
ah well. another two days or so to be wasted trying to get the
rickety system working on linux :).
tiger
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