Vince Hoang wrote:
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."
Yeah, yeah, so I use 'make buildworld; make buildkernel; make
installkernel; make installworld' with 'mergemaster -p'
and 'mergemaster' in the right places.
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.
Yeah, maybe I want a 'etc-upgrade' like thing to replace 'megemaster'.
