[rescue] OpenBSD

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0500, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> Ick! Ports rock. and the packages collection works very well. IMHO

Am I the *only* person on here who prefers to get a base OS install,
and then build EVERYTHING else from scratch?  When I install a Solaris
box, I do a highly-customized Developer install, install a GCC binary
package, then use that to *recompile* GCC (even if its the same version)
from source.. then I do a pkgrm SMCgcc, make install on the newly-compiled
version, then use *that* to compile everything else?

I know exactly whats on my system, and what it depends on - I also
keep /usr/local/src/installed; the tarballs of the software source
thats installed on the machine.  When I upgrade something like apache,
PHP, mysql, etc, I delete the old source tarball and drop the new one
in.

Also makes it easy to check and see what version of stuff is already
installed, by looking into that directory.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX