Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:10:42 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support <software@kew.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: after the release ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980320160619.4938B-100000@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> In-Reply-To: <199803201740.KAA03231@xmission.xmission.com>
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Do we not already have a binary distribution system with the pkgadd command? Why not just take the new fixed binaries and make the into a package, call it 2.2.6Update-980312.tgz or something. If someone could point me in the direction of how to create packages for the pkgadd command, I'll do it myself. Also, does anybody have better info on how to create ports? I've tried to do it myself using the handbook, but I can't get the original Makefile for the program to work. ---------------------------------------- Derek Flowers djflow@erols.com http://portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us/~djflow "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, circa 1981 On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > Eivind Eklund wrote: > % Good suggestion! Go ahead and do it; I promise to post comments about > % your design when you post it, and I'm sure Jordan and Mike will, too. > > Drew Derbyshire replied: > > Drop dead. You can say it's boring to do and that Real Programmers (TM) don't > > need it, go ahead, but I don't need the sarcasm. > > > > You can disagree with me, but I don't need to be ridiculed for making a valid > > suggestion. > > You misunderstood, he was neither disagreeing with you nor ridiculing > you. He was simply inviting you to participate. Believe me, I've seen > this before. > > You have a great idea here, but the FreeBSD core team is already > involved in their pursuits. If you want to do this, get together a > team to help you, come up with a design, float it around for comments, > then get busy coding. > > > I neither a CVS expert > > So you have some studying to do. > > > nor directing FreeBSD release policy. I'm only > > You're being offered a position to direct a portion of it. Since what > you propose won't change the source tree or the exiting release process > at all, the worst you can do is waste your time. This isn't some giant > corporation with thousands of approvals to get. Just do it! > > > pointing out a failure in the FreeBSD release cycle, as Jordan pointed out HP > > and Sun have bugs, but THEY have a packaged patch process. FreeBSD does not, > > it only has "upgrade to the next release" or hand patch any fixes into the > > source and rebuild. Adding such a patch function seems to be an issue of > > packaging a limited number of critical changes (in 2.2.5 for example, it would > > have been the lpd and the security fixes) into a package. Under System V, it > > would be pkgadd. Under FreeBSD the best method seems to be ports. > > I'd prefer to see binary packages myself; they're easier to install. > > As I said, you have a good idea here. Your help is needed to make it > happen. This is as good a forum as any to gather help, advice, > criticism, flames, and anything else you may want or need. This is a > "stable" issue, so this is an appropriate forum. > > So? > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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