[rescue] OpenBSD

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 1/27/02 1:30 AM, Bill Bradford at mrbill at mrbill.net wrote:

> 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?

Maybe :)

> 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.

While I thing that is a very good way to manage installed software you just
gotta love the ports collection. go to the directory containg the software
you want, type 'make' and it goes out gets the latest source, the source for
all deps and just builds away. While this does not have the same level of
accounting for what is on the machine I find the ease of use, and the fact I
am getting the latest source, very useful. Especially for folks like me
still learning the Unix Jedi ways :)


Mike N