From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 21:40:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40621065674 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com (mail-px0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9782A8FC1E for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi17 with SMTP id 17so3720529pxi.13 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:40:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=tH1QmdzGB1RExgEnzRjcZKq9yhz1UUkcO9jr94ijIag=; b=x9f8xom1V7s6ENPq1k9C/T80DVMIMxR8f72eKUoBX4eem3hyNMGDVOeleH+cS/DiHb QwOsedEXP74wDmqsxGoqmvtzqf9hs7+/Iuc1dn1un8z2ij2qkBnP62dcLgo9kOziYuIb wAV4kTjoEGNwMUsGJhIJfKpxEqA5wOq0G7TC4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=dSJXD7mpq0E8Nh+pbUcoHoPADXv9j7/7wIVnJNy91BZYUeBkPneE7A9lCOl8fqTHv+ X0DnAUPMEFXalSEzgiCFNzDUorRn+feNliy6A8uqBZNuLDsXb8jP212QjXo7CA7Hyc8z sKTEWbb2etUSBpPSFaJZH/DHV5tYYcW3IGQd0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.153.24 with SMTP id f24mr5783302wfo.292.1272577251689; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:40:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.69.2 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:40:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86pr1if8f8.fsf@chateau.d.if> References: <69c1eb88a6644ad47f93f71b22b6b920@bsdroot.lv> <86pr1if8f8.fsf@chateau.d.if> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:40:51 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Ashish SHUKLA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Aldis Berjoza , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD ports system - bachelors work X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:54 -0000 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Aldis Berjoza writes: >> Hello! > >> Some time ago I've read, that FreeBSD might be interested >> to move ports tree to database (sqlite?). >> This would require rewriting of all existing and writing >> some new tools related to ports. > > I hope pkg_improved[1] GSoC project might interest you. > > [1] - http://wiki.freebsd.org/AndersNore/pkg_improved That's going to become moot in a bit as several of us are working on a combined effort to improve pkg_install. The patch probably also doesn't apply 100%. Thanks, -Garrett