Re: Which BSD?

From: Marco van de Voort (marcov_at_stack.nl)
Date: 11/20/03

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    On 2003-11-06, David Douthitt <ssrat@mailbag.com> wrote:
    > On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:47:15 GMT, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L.
    > Schwartz) wrote:
    >
    > With BSD, you have to:
    >
    > make world
    >
    > ...and pray that it rebuilds your entire massive complete one-in-all
    > system correctly.
    >
    > Even the ports system, nice as it is - if I want to patch for a SSH
    > exploit, for example - I can update the port (and do) but if I want to
    > update the base? "Oh, gosh, I hope this works..."
    >
    > For Linux:
    >
    > rpm -Uvh openssh*.rpm
    >
    > ...and it's done. Can't BSD do this? I wish it would.... instead of
    > using the huge monolithic base.

    Openssh is in the ports for these purposes. Install the port, rename the
    original binary. Done.

    One of the things I like most with the ports system, is that I can rule out
    a lot of useless script languages and their modules with a few WITHOUT and
    WITH statements in /etc/m(a)k(e).conf.

    In all binary distro's this stuff keep clogging up your HDs..

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