Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:33:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of a port... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.90.980618092828.26102C-100000@rrzc6> In-Reply-To: <199806180659.QAA16281@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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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 <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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