Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment

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From: Martin Ebourne
Subject: Re: OS X packaging is an embarrassment
Date: 12:21 on 22 May 2006
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.
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