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Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]
> Portage problems:
> 1. It's not easy to use an older version of software. We can't
> upgrade to mysql 4.x for political reasons and have to run 3.x
> Portage constantly wants to upgrade to 4. I pinned it to 3.x, but
> that breaks builds of many packages that depend on mysql. Most of
> them have an optional dependency, which I don't really use, but since
> mysql was installed when these packages were first installed, they now
> depend on it.There's no nice automatic way to find all of these and
> make them not depend on mysql.
see what depends on mysql: equery h mysql
then reemerge world with -mysql
>
> 2. There are at least 3 places where a package can be masked.
> /etc/portage/packages.mask, USE flags,
> /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and those are the ones I know
> about. Some may have been deprecated, but they are still used.
whats wrong with that
> 3. Trying to build something that is masked is a nightmare. Why
> would anyone want to do this? Sometimes it takes forever for a new
> port to be unmasked. FreeBSD's gnome team is usually 2 months ahead
> of Gentoo's for new releases. If the port or a next-level dependency
> are masked, I believe it's easy to figure out what to unmask. If it's
> a deeper dependency, you have to try the build, decipher the error,
> unmask, rinse and repeat. Try that for something like gnome with a
> few hundred dependencies -- all masked.
emerge -Dtpv gnome
> 4. Finding dependencies isn't easy -- see #3. The only way I found
> was to keep trying and deal with them one at a time as emerge errored
> out.
equery or qpkg
> 5. Inside joke, how do you emerge the rsync package -- emerge rsync
> ?? This one isn't brokem anymore, but it used to cause me grief every
> time.
trivial to get around even if it's your first time to encounter it.
> Organizational problems:
> 1. It is common to wait a week or so after every portage update in
> case something is broken. This may seem like common sense, but it
> follows from being burned numerous times. There was a period where
> portage was downgraded after almost every upgrade.
its not perfect
> 2. Things often sit in a masked state for a long time before being
> unmasked. I understand this is a volunteer effort, but it's often not
> clear from the ChangeLog why something is waiting. #3 above shows why
> this is a problem.
ask the maintainer
> 3. Downgrading ports for no appearant reason. Once again, the
> ChangeLog often doesn't say why it's downgraded -- it just is.
read GLSA and gentoo-announce
> I've only used FreeBSD ports and portage, and as bad as ports is
> sometimes, it's much better than portage. People talking about using
> portage has me looking for a clue-by-four :-)
I have used deb/apt, ports, pkgsrc, rpm, sorcery/sourcemagelinux.
sorcery and portage had less problems.
Perhaps because ~90% of open source software is built assuming linux?
--ed
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