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[Collins Richey]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> This is exactly why we have been using the OpenPKG portable packaging
> systems since moving from Caldera to SuSE years ago.
>
> The OpenPKG system allows us to ignore the underlying distribution's
> packages for most things including gcc, perl, php, python, even berkeley
> db, *WITHOUT* replacing the distribution's versions thus not breaking their
> on-line updates.  By doing this we have complete control over all the major
> server packages, postfix, amavisd, clamav, apache, openldap, openssh, and
> so forth without either waiting for the distribution's updates or avoiding
> broken updates.
>

That's an excellent idea. Would you care to open a new thread with
more details about how you utilize OpenPKG?

Is OpenPKG as the name implies and open (FOSS) package?


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Collins Richey
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