[Gllug] BSD

Henrik Morsing henrik at morsing.cc
Mon Aug 30 10:00:42 UTC 2004


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> Henrik Morsing wrote:
>
> > To me the FreeBSD package system seems like the ones Debian and Gentoo
> >
> >uses. I've never understood this statement.
> >
> >
>
> Installing a package is very simple.  It's maintaining the box that's
> the problem.   If I handed you a three year old FreeBSD box would you be
> able to quickly and easily update it to all the current versions of all
> the installed packages?  Plus security updates?

I can't do that with Linux either.
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