Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:04:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10107100459170.67797-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20010710125613.A51035@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rasputin wrote: :* Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> [010710 12:42]: :> On 10 Jul 2001, Rajappa Iyer wrote: : :> :One of the nice things I like about FreeBSD (and I daresay I'm not :> :alone in this) is that when I install it, I know that I'll get a :> :kernel with a corresponding full and functional userland. I see the :> :packaging of this `base system' as a bunch of (meta)packages as the :> :thin edge of the wedge---pretty soon FreeBSD will resemble the :> :hodge-podge collection of different (often conflicting) packages that :> :Linux is. : :> Where as I see the ability to incrementally upgrade only the parts of the :> OS that have changed from release to release as I can do right now in :> Irix. : :I may be low on caffeine, but I don't see how breaking up the base system :into packages makes it any easier to upgrade than using cvsup? :Id have thought it would require more work to upgrade under some system :similar to the ports tree (at least that's my experience) :But like I said, I've probably misread this post. You're expecting the whole world to keep the source tree on disk and recompile the OS. Once I've done this, I cannot regress. This is unrealistic in production environments. I can update Irix without shutting down, and a single reboot at the end to load the new kernel. Everything is tracked via inst/swmgr, any part can be upgraded or downgraded as necessary, including dependancies. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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