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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:30:21AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> You might want to try dispatch-conf. It is superior to etc-update in many |
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> aspects, and it comes with gentoolkit. Further there is normally no need |
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> to update every night. While there is no problem with it, it will |
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> increase the maintenance load unnecessarilly. |
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Actually it's part of Portage (at least until .51_rc9), but that's |
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nitpicking :) |
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> The thing is that portage's binary packages are far from perfect when |
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> compared for example with rpm's. The problem is caused by the fact that |
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> two seemingly similar binary packages can be different to the extend that |
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> one will work on your system and the other not. As gentoo is mainly a |
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> source distribution the effort required to make binaries "better" is |
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> probably too big. Even then all kinds of binary problems are unavoidable |
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> and the main cause of releases in all binary distributions, even debian. |
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> With source one can mix and match, with binary releases one must ensure |
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> that all dependencies are completely compatible with the versions that |
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> existed when the package was built. |
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Some issues with binary releases are covered by a document that rac has on |
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his dev page. It's not the official Gentoo policy, but it does make you |
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think about it :) |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~rac/binaries.html |
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Just a complementary note. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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