From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jun 18 00:33:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06747 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rrzs2.rz.uni-regensburg.de (rrzs2.rz.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06687 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 00:33:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de) Received: from rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de (rrzc6.rz.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.3.65]) by rrzs2.rz.uni-regensburg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01316; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:33:37 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:33:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hubert Feyrer X-Sender: feh39068@rrzc6 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of a port... In-Reply-To: <199806180659.QAA16281@cain.gsoft.com.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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.. Um, no. You can't depend on an existing ports tree when installing compiled binaries. You'll have (probably again via a tuned pkg_info) parse the @depends lines of the package in question, and then go in recursively as long as the package isn't already installed. > Of course we could get RPM and start there, since it has lots of the features > we want already.. To be honest, I've never looked at it. I only know that there's a book on RPM... maybe we should document the *BSD ports (and packages :) system in some book, too. :-) > > > *that* would rock =) > > Yup... send me your diffs .-) > Heheh :) Yeah.. I plead sanity.. ie I'm not insane enough to know make that > well ;) Well, here's your big chance to gain that knowledge. :) - Hubert -- Hubert Feyrer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message