On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:53:44PM -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: > For this reasons, and given my technical bent, gentoo (and emerge) > seems a better solution than debian + 'apt', but even emerge pales in > comparison to > FreeBSD's 'cvsup; make world; make kernel; ...' (though 'mergemaster' > sucks rocks). Given that the gentoo original mission was to > recreate the BSD 'make' system, and the resultant de-railing when the > gentoo system started to require python in order to build, this seems > like the natural order of things.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html "Although the world target still exists, you are strongly encouraged not to use it." > Even 'mergemaster' isn't perfect, I recently managed to take the > FreeBSD box from 5.4 to 6.0RC1, but it needed a little 'help' via > "remote hands", since mergemaster had given me a /etc/groups > file where I was no longer in /etc/group, and I hadn't (yet) > installed 'sudo' on the box. Presto, no way to become root except > on the console. What is a sane alternative to mergemaster? Updating /etc is a PITA without it. Correction, updating /etc is less of a PITA with it. I am glad gentoo has a cousin to it, etc-update, rather than forcing you to run find and manually performing left/right merges. -Vince
