quoth the Mike Meyer: > A lot of the > rough edges of Gentoo have been dealt with in FreeBSD. For instance, > you can update from source, but you can also get binary updates.
You can sort of do this with Gentoo. Check out the "--usepkg", "--getbinpkg" and "--buildpkg" emerge options. The only problem is that I don't think there are many (any?) official repositories of binary packages, and if there are, they don't have the full array of all packages available from portage. I haven't checked in a while though, so this may be different now. In any event, it is an excellant timesaver if you have a network of similar systems. emerge from source on your staging server, build a bin package, and push it to the rest of the systems. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org/ "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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