Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment

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> Oh great... I recently had an issue with the Apache runtime not 
> working with the latest version of Sleepycat (i.e. Berkeley DB) but 
> which was required for svn (or was it mySQL?, I forget now). In a 
> nutshell, there was a recursive package dependancy conflict. If you 
> updated the webserver with all the packages it required, mySQL would 
> be hosed. If you updated mySQL's package requirements, the webserver 
> would be hosed.

That's part of the problem I had with RPMs last June. Repository 
conflicts between Apache, Tomcat, Java, Ant, and magic XML that was 
supposed to glue it all together.

I was able to install everything on FreeBSD by downloading the Linux 
packages from Sun, sticking them in my distfiles directory, and typing 
"make install"... and waiting six hours. Yeh, recompiling everything 
takes more time, but it's not *my* time it's wasting.

• Peter da Silva 05:43 on 21 May 2006
  • Bruce Richardson 12:19 on 21 May 2006
    • Peter da Silva 16:21 on 21 May 2006
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    • Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment Luke Kanies 19:34 on 21 May 2006
  • Peter da Silva 17:16 on 21 May 2006
  • Luke Kanies 19:29 on 21 May 2006
    • peter (Peter da Silva) 20:17 on 21 May 2006
      • too deep to show
• Luke Kanies 19:23 on 21 May 2006
  • Robert G. Werner 06:25 on 22 May 2006

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