On Friday 28 March 2003 07:48, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > Frankly, I think LFS is a good thing to try if you have spare time and > want to understand how Linux works in great detail: there's nothing that > can teach you that so well as actually building it up from scratch. > This is something everyone serious about Linux should do at least once > in their lives, I believe. However, I imagine it would be a nightmare > to administer such a system in actual deployment as a server. It would > be an absolute bitch to maintain, keep up to date with security patches, > and upgrade. That's where Gentoo and Portage come in.
I agree with you. I ran LFS for a short while before I knew about gentoo. It is a good way to learn how all core linux components fit together, but besides that, it is a nightmare to maintain. It's worse than windows without uninstallers. That should say enough. For that reason I actually used rpm for package management of my own LFS packages. I can tell you from personal experience that making rpm packages is an overly complicated and slow process. Especially when looking at the simplicity and power of portage/ebuilds. Before I ran LFS I used to run something that somewhat resembled redhat 6.0. I did update too much of it though. At the time I went over to LFS is was unmanageable too as I had hand-installed so much that I got all kinds of dependency based compile problems. I believe gentoo offers something that is halfway between LFS and RH. It offers the sane choices, high speed and configurability of LFS, and it offers the package management and dependencies of RH. It actually offers a package/dependency system that surpasses rpm by far. One factor in this is the editability of ebuilds and of the package repository that is just a dir with text files in it. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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