On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:16:19PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > Sergio wrote: > > >I moved all my servers (about 40) to the pkgng (new generation) > >package/port > >system, and I can say that it is amazing... it is not yet finish, and > >have some > >minor "issues", but works very well, and is lightning fast.. > > > >It is almost the same as "pacman" (from Archlinux).. you build a > >"repository" and install packages from that repository. when you > >update the repository, the other servers can do an "upgrade".. > >you do not have to have the ports tree in each server, and > >you build the ports only on the master server.... > > > >in the master server, there is a full gnome2 (with 842 dependencies) > >that install right on the shelf with only one command: pkg install > >gnome2 > >now I have a full functional server runing gnome, libreoffice, inkscape > >hplip, cups printing, gdm... in about 30 minutes from internet.... > > I am extremely interested by what you are saying here. Do you mean that > you can find somewhere precompiled packages that you can install in 30mn > or that you use packages compiled on a master server? Of course the > difference is that if you have just one machine in the basement instead > of a server farm, the point of view is not the same ... > > By the way if you mention that pkgng shares something to some penguinist > system, beware it will be villified by some guardians of the orthodoxy > who are quite vocal. Anyways if it is indeed fast it will make a happy > difference with the present pkg-* tools. > >
no pkgng do ont share something penguinist at all :) pkgng is just the result of long studies and reflexion about packaging (studying what is done elsewhere: apt/dpkg, yum/rpm, pacman, aix, solaris, netbsd, openbsd and how to have something that try to take the good ideas from there, try not to take the *over engineered* complicated part. And most important try to do it the FreeBSD way: which means it should work with the ports tree as-is (and help improve it in the future), so we are safe no real penguinism in pkgng :) Bapt
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