On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 at 13:55, Ian C. Sison wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, -JhAzEr- wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 at 12:54, Ian C. Sison wrote: > > > Sure the tarball way can be done the same way but who wants to keep on > > > repeating those build commands on 30 other boxes? Wheather you do it the > > > RPM way or the tarball way or the slackware pkgtool way you STILL HAVE TO > > > BE AWARE OF DEPENDENCIES. So what's the added value of using lesser > > > technology? > > > > You don't need to build the tarball on all 30 other boxes. One > > solution is to build it on one box and create the tgz package there > > using a utility, and your ready to distribute it on the remaining 29 > > boxes using Slackware's pkgtool. ;) > > Right. That comment was made in response to people who insist on building > their favorit apps from tarballs. Clearly not the way to go when you need > to replicate to several servers. Masochistic, but it will work. Kind of > like wanting to walk all the way to baguio when you can ride a bus. > You'll probably live through it, people will think you are crazy, but hey, > it's a free and open source world!
agreed! > > Slackware does it better a little because it has some sort of packager, > but it still lacks the very basic stuff like dependencies, and MD5SUMs. > It's not enough for me, but apparently for some it's good enough. Kind of > like wanting to go to baguio on a bus when they can take a car. Problem > is they can't drive a car very well and it keeps on stalling for them > when they try. pretty good observation! i agree with you. but in terms of dependencies, i think it's not appropriate to say that it lacks it. Slackware's philosophy is simplicity and ease of use. let's say for example you're building gnome from tarballs. you'll notice that dependencies for building gnome are quite minimal compared to other distros. that's the difference between pkgtool and rpm. rpm was built to track down those dependencies while pkgtool was designed to simplistically allow you to build it with ease based on those minimal dependencies. ;) Slackware 9.0 Beta ------------------------------ pub 1024D/04BAE461 2002-10-22 -JhAzEr- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/63BA0ABD 2002-10-22 Mobile Phone: 0920-2625725 Window Manager ---> Ratpoison-1.1.1 Email Client ---> Pygmy-0.6.0 Web Browser ---> Phoenix-0.5 (Naples) [gcc-3.2] [gnupg-1.2.0] [gpgme-0.3.9] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
