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Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > On May 22, 2006, at 2:55 AM, Martin Ebourne wrote: >> Then it >> installs using my normal package manager and is handled just like a >> distro package. I've never seen any other OS I could do that on in less >> than 4 steps. > > FreeBSD: > # vi /sys/i386/conf/CONFIGNAME > # config CONFIGNAME > # cd /sys/compile/CONFIGNAME > # make install > > Tru64: > # vi /usr/sys/conf/CONFIGNAME > # echo n | doconfig -c CONFIGNAME > # cp /usr/sys/CONFIGNAME/vmunix /vmunix That doesn't seem to be the same thing at all. Sure, you've =20 reconfigured and rebuilt the kernel. But you've not ended up with a package install which can be usefully =20 tracked on your machine. Let alone installed on a different machine =20 (what, you have a compiler on every machine?). And have dependencies =20 managed for you as well. Any unix can do configure && make install, great. The instructions I gave produce an RPM package every bit as complete =20 and reusable as the original vendor one, which from a position of =20 managing multiple machines (or even just reliably managing one) is a =20 totally different result. Cheers, Martin.There's stuff above here
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