From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 19 14:51:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C5C14FCD for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:51:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: from tundra.winternet.com (nrahlstr@tundra.winternet.com [198.174.169.11]) by icicle.winternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06752; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:51:37 -0500 (CDT) SMTP "HELO" (ESMTP) greeting from tundra.winternet.com But _really_ from :: nrahlstr@tundra.winternet.com [198.174.169.11] SMTP "MAIL From" = nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com (Nathan Ahlstrom) SMTP "RCPT To" = Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id QAA21628; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:51:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990719165136.B21295@winternet.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:51:36 -0500 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Allen Campbell Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New package system (was Re: Sanity regained -- back with the best) Mail-Followup-To: Allen Campbell , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org References: <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <37924170.49BA7266@verinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <37924170.49BA7266@verinet.com>; from Allen Campbell on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 03:04:48PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> Speaking of which, what is the status of FreeBSD's new >> ports/packages system? > > When I last inquired, the new code was not far enough along to leave the > nest yet. The other concern is it requires egcs (template support is > key I believe,) and a few other tools which had not imported into the > tree yet. This was sometime around 3.1-RELEASE. > > Jordan provided this information. Please forgive me if I am > paraphrasing incorrectly. An update would be helpful. ftp://zippy.cdrom.com/pub/libh.tar.gz This is a sorta working snapshot of the new sysinstall stuff (I think it also has the package stuff in it too). You need egcs, tcl, qt, and tvision. Jordan didn't want to be bothered by lots of people asking how to compile it. I did get some of it running, so if you need to ask some questions, let me know. [See the thread on -hackers Re: Lizard... from a few weeks ago] The bottom line is that it looks damn cool, but the code is a bitch to read and follow. ;-) Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message