You do realize that the "export scripts" mentioned in that article
were recently repaired and re-enabled, right? There was an
announcement of this in the last week or two...
Note that lukem's init is vastly superior to both; I'm sort of hoping
(instead of actually doing it, just now) that someone adapts *that*
instead, sees a clever way to do with minimal or no changes to the
invocation of update-rc.d, and then migrates that back do
debian-everythingelse...
> One misunderstanding that I have read, is that many Debian users believe
> that the BSD ports/packages systems are week or don't work very well --
The particular case that pkgsrc falls down on is upgrading a
compatible library. In debian, if libpng2 gets a fix, a new rev of
libpng2 goes in "in
> [02:19] (zedboy) i'm still waiting for Debian/Solaris.
it wasn't that hard to build dpkg on solaris 8.
fakeroot was "hard" (isaexec() and mixed 32- and 64- mode) but the new
changes for linux-sparc64 may have helped, I should poke at it again
> Both camps include
> batshit wackos and idiots as well as competent developers.
Anyone who doubts this - ask someone who was at the BSD bofs (or the
bar afterwards) at the Boston Usenix :)
egads, of *course* you'd use UFS over ext2. That's probably 20% of
the reason to use NetBSD to begin with, a filesystem that does things
like flush buffers to disk in the right order...
So we need a list of what packages will have netbsd-native
alternatives. Note that for application stuff we al
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