21 Jul
2012
21 Jul
'12
1:31 p.m.
Harald Welte wrote:
Yes, but you have no option but to build everything manually, I call
it slackware style, while with a source based distribution it is more
likely that there is actual support for bleeding edge packages. In
Gentoo they're called "live" ebuilds; latest git is built and managed
by the package manager. Dependencies are resolved. It's quite nice.
The osmocom
projects and GNU radio are quite volatile, frequently
changing, and more or less require staying constantly on the bleeding
edge to get the most out of the projects, and to be able to
contribute back of course!
Very few distributions are equipped to handle anything bleeding edge,
and in particular binary based distributions are useless, because you
have to wait for someone else to build that last commit. Not what you
want.
I'm not really sure how those two relate. I regularly build all of the
osmoocom code on Debian stable (which is known for its ancient
versions). So I really don't think we have any dependencies to
something that would not be part of any more or less current
distribution of the last 2-3 years. So I would think that all of those distributions
(source-built or binary
based) are equally well equipped to build and use any of the osmocom
projects on them.
Certainly when building everything manually, but that's really quite
primitive. Source based distributions generally have more powerful
package management tooling was my message, which I think is on topic.
//Peter