Hi Roger, I do not have any expertise in this area, i am just trying to understand the advantage you mentioned.
Roger Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maintaining a port is so much easier than maintaining an RPM. I'm > talking night and day. With ports you don't have to generate a > distinct specfile or build a separate binary package for every OS > version (multiplied by) every architecture. All you need is the > makefile and a few patches. When a new release comes out most of > the time all you need change is the makefile's version numbers > (assuming patches still apply cleanly, and most of the time they > do). This means, packages' source/makefiles should be protable. If they are really protable, can't we automate creating/maintaining rpms/debs ? Also, above advantage increases the package installation time at the end-user, isn't it? Download, compile and install procedure takes a lot of time for packages like emacs compared to download and install binaries. -- bvk-chaitanya _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
