From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-09-11T14:53:36+09:00 Subject: Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:00:57PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> I'd say the same goes for (pure) Debian. The base network install CD is >> under 200 MB, and you can even boot up a Debian box from scratch over >> the network from no more than half a dozen floppies, and if you're >> lucky, you only need two. Once you get the base built, you can rebuild >> packages from source if you need to for speed as easily as you can >> emerge a package from source with Gentoo. But ... I went down the Gentoo >> path and I'm not turning back. :) > > Much as I prefer Debian over Gentoo, I don't know that I'd say you could > rebuild packages from source for performance as easily on Debian as > Gentoo. Maybe it's close enough, though. > It's a couple extra lines in the config file for apt-get to point to the source package repositories (".dsc", I think they are). Then there is another command, the Debian equivalent of "rpmbuild", that compiles the source package to a binary one (.deb). At that point you install the .deb and you're done. I think there's a one-step command that will do the compile and install and throw away the intermediate stuff too. The other side of that is that you can configure Gentoo to build and keep the binary packages (.tbz2) in a repository. I think people with large Gentoo server farms must do this -- I can't imagine recompiling the same package over on every box. Ezra? How do you do it? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5i0a8fKMegVjSM8RArTSAJ9TDtIaSrKqArb9CKcL5fRgKZ3HJwCeNyHn X0EF35B8IpTSGXC4zbqycVs= =C2k8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----