On 2007/04/15 02:37, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > The original poster seemed to be asking more about an incremental > update system. Maybe that's the wrong term but something along the > lines of the name-your-favorite-linux-distribution setup. An example > might be yum in CentOS (and others) or apt-get in Debian. This seems > like a much more complicated option. While possible, it would take a > lot of work. Any thoughts on this part?
That follows from the "base OS" being a bunch of unrelated packages as done in most Linux distributions. > One way of doing this would be to provide a tarball that contains all > of the affected files or binaries relevant to the particular fix or > possibly one large tarball with every fix for -stable up to that > point. This could be installed with tar or even a nice little shell > script. What about this? I run -current on most systems, but I would imagine that many people who made the more conservative decision to run -stable rather than -current would probably prefer not to trust third-party binaries either.
