[rescue] OpenBSD

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Bill Bradford 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?

Yes and no...  I loved doing it that way... but then I ran into problems
when wanting to uninstall stuff.  That and some of the cool stuff nowadays
has annoying dependancy chains.  And actually, Debian's package system
is the only one that I like.  Especially since when they are done
packaging up some software, it puts its files in consistent places, which
many software packages don't do without coercion.

> 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.

Ever been burned by a package changing what files it installs?  Or where
it installs?  I have =)  And it bugs me that sometimes it's easiest to
just reinstall the whole system....

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

I totally understand where you're coming from.  I'm just trying to show
you where us crazy package-management liking freaks are coming from =)

--Kurt