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Are you suggesting packaging in debian or fedora has some issues? Can you elaborate in one or two lines? Thanks.
by iambvk 16y ago
Are you suggesting packaging in debian or fedora has some issues? Can you elaborate in one or two lines? Thanks.
- rbanffy 16y agoNo. Debian and Fedora have just fine package managers. What they can't do is boot from a ZFS file system. I am implying Solaris and FreeBSD (the other OSs that boot from ZFS, AFAIK) don't have a sane packaging system.
- wwortiz 16y agoI am curious what you find wrong with FreeBSD's package management, or is it in reference to packages and does not include ports?
- rbanffy 16y agoSource-based packaging is slower than binary packages. The binary package system, although it exists, is not as simple to use. In Red Hat-ish distros, I can do "yum update". In Debian-ish distros, I can run "aptitude safe-upgrade". On Debian, I can even do a dist-upgrade and update the box to a new release without having to reinstall it (or boot into the installer). Everything is downloaded, installed and, if needed, restarted. Very close to zero downtime.
- rbanffy 16y agoOops... Solaris has a somewhat sane package manager.