On Sat, Jul 16, 2005, Albert Chin wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:24:13PM -0700, David M. Fetter wrote:
>> This also means that things like `rsync -av -e ssh dir/
>> host:/tmp/dir/` will not work because openssh won't see the rsync
>> binary that resides under %{l_prefix}/bin, etc.
>
>Easily fixed by configuring rsync with --with-rsync-path.That's a workaround, not a solution, particularly if one has remote sites connecting that don't know anything about your local configuration. Changes in the local system's configuration should be transparent to external systems, and not require that they know anything about my internal configuration. It also doesn't address issues where there may be a vendor's version of a program that would be run instead of the desired OpenPKG version. IHMO, If I'm going to run the OpenPKG version of openssh or other server software, it should be aware of and use OpenPKG versions of programs in preference to the vendor's version. This is one of the main reasons I use OpenPKG as it allows me to have a common environment, independent of the underlying OS. Before I started using OpenPKG, I would often replace the vendor's versions of programs with OpenSource versions to make it easier to deal with differences in systems. This often required making changes that either broke the vendor's update procedures, or required extensive work to undo their effects after an update. I first found out about OpenPKG when I read Ralf's article in SysAdmin magazine, which was great timing as I was also evaluating alternatives to Caldera's OpenLinux, and was going to have to make a fairly major change in our software and installation procedures in any case. I've been doing applications and systems software on *nix systems since 1982, and OpenPKG has vastly simplified this job. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.'' -Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-1859 ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
