From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 17 23:59:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01089 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:59:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01081 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA16281; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:29:38 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199806180659.QAA16281@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Hubert Feyrer cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of a port... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 08:55:12 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:29:38 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > can go 'tell me how much space it will use to install this' - Which would > > depend on wether it used libraries etc.. > Hum, that's a bit trickier... you'd have to check if the libs are already > installed. Heh, yeah.. The current ports system can do that.. ie you go (in your port Makefile) If this library/binary isn't installed make this port.. Of course we could get RPM and start there, since it has lots of the features we want already.. > > *that* would rock =) > Yup... send me your diffs .-) Heheh :) Yeah.. I plead sanity.. ie I'm not insane enough to know make that well ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message