To be a new DFly commiter
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Sat Mar 17 17:27:03 PDT 2007
> > What FreeBSD and NetBSD lack is a good system for
> > management of binary packages. Marc has very well understood that,
> > and has made every effort so that updates work smoothly. To my
> > knowledge OpenBSD is the only BSD which has a working update
> > mechanism, fully integrated.
>
> I completely agree with you - I prefer binary packages. If nothing else,
> pkgmanager is getting close to taking away much of the pain of manual
> compilation and upgrading: http://www.scode.org/pkgmanager/ .
And pkg_select has been updated to work with binary packages using the
pkg_summary database. And I heard that pkg_chk can use the pkg_summary(5)
database for binary updates also.
By the way, OpenBSD's solution uses perl. Pkgsrc doesn't depend on perl as
perl is not installed on some pkgsrc developers/users systems.
Jeremy C. Reed
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