Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> 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
reconfigured and rebuilt the kernel.
But you've not ended up with a package install which can be usefully
tracked on your machine. Let alone installed on a different machine
(what, you have a compiler on every machine?). And have dependencies
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
and reusable as the original vendor one, which from a position of
managing multiple machines (or even just reliably managing one) is a
totally different result.
Cheers,
Martin.
