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[Eden Li]

Hmm.. sounds a lot like FreeBSD's source and ports system (basically
you do a cvs/cvsup of the source tree then go into the root directory
of the source and do a make buildworld, after that go into single user
and do a make installworld, building the kernel is very similar; ports
is just a heirarchy of Makefiles that automatically fetch/configure/
install any given package for you, [i.e. cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp1 ;
make install]).  It's something that I really like about FreeBSD and
OpenBSD, and if LFSMake should take off, it would really make me think
about running Linux on my home machine again.

Eden

Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
> I guess this is a question of automation.  My project LFSMake
> (http://lfsmake.org/) is a start on that.  There's also a very (perhaps
> too) ambitious automation project getting started via one of the mailing
> lists at linuxfromscratch.org.
> 
> With LFSMake what you generally do for a new package release is change
> the version number in the makefile (or get an updated makefile) and then
> run the download and build commands again.  How well that works will
> depend on how much the volunteers can manage to stay on top of things.
> 
> On the other hand, if you have a working system it's hardly necessary
> to do upgrades every day.  Also there's nothing to stop you from
> installing your favorite package management system.
> 
> -- Rod