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From: Juerd
Subject: Re: fink
Date: 18:03 on 04 Nov 2004
Paul Orrock skribis 2004-11-04 17:49 (+0000):
> apt-get from network install to fully configured server with apache, perl, 
> half a ton of perl modules and a large dollop of graphics stuff in 1 hour. 
> Now thats package management.

Indeed. And to illustrate how flexible and fun to use apt-get is on a
Debian box that has already been fully configured (my home workstation):

Someone had a problem with Mason. Their mod_perl apache died of
segmentation faults. I wanted to see if I could reproduce that on my
home box.

I did not have Apache installed. Within two minutes (I have a fast
connection), I had Apache, mod_perl, Mason and a bunch of Perl modules
installed. I pasted some configuration example into my httpd.conf,
restarted apache and it just worked the first time I tried.

Then, to see if the difference between a DSO mod_perl and a static
mod_perl mattered, I removed the apache package and installed the
apache-perl package. One minute later I had a working Mason again.

Then, I removed all the packages that were installed to have a clean
system again. This took less than a minute.

So in less than ten minutes, I had installed Apache with mod_perl twice
and removed it and the required Perl modules that came along with this
testing. And my system was still clean.

I loves apt. I hates other package management tools, especially those
that compile from source and provide no easy option to get a binary, or
make uninstalling to get back the clean system hard.


Juerd
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