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- From: bet@sbi.com (Bennett Todd @ Salomon Brothers Inc., NY )
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: A discipline for packages
- Message-ID: <802@cyclone.sbi.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 05:21:57 GMT
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- Well, I've seen the System V packaging tools, as used in Solaris 2.x
- (pkgadd, pkgrm, pkginfo, ...). I'd rather use the current SLS system; it's a
- much cleaner, simpler approach, though maybe not as powerful. My big
- complaints with the System V packaging tools are that they try to solve to
- many different (and often only loosely related) problems, and that they make
- no real effort to exploit existing Unix standards and utilities.
-
- For stuff I add to my own machine, I probably won't bother making new SLS
- packages; I'll probably just use /usr/local/src/pkgname.tar.Z to hold the
- sources, and /usr/local/{bin,lib,man,...} to contain the installed files.
- Then I'll just back up my home directory and /usr/local before a major
- upgrade. Sure, it isn't as potent and powerful as a real package management
- system, but then a home box doesn't need to be as complex as a commercial
- system. A lot of the power of the serious package management tools really
- only justifies the effort when you've got a _huge_ computer to maintain, or
- when you have many many machines to administer.
-
- -Bennett
- bet@sbi.com
-