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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:38:24 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        rssh@grad.kiev.ua, Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"
Message-ID:  <19980414193824.31470@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <352E7F01.1B9C39BC@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>; from Ruslan Shevchenko on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:20:25PM %2B0300
References:  <007501bd64a4$85095f40$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> <352E61A7.570D84C@ninbox.ml.org> <19980410150331.16376@vmunix.com> <352E76F7.1B2D773D@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> <19980410160851.15337@vmunix.com> <352E7F01.1B9C39BC@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>

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On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:20:25PM +0300, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
> Free time of volunteers is slowing factor.
> 
> We can have --FreeBSD-ports collection and bazzar-style
> set of links for FreeBSD applications. Becouse attempt
> to track *all* software which run on FreeBSD is in
> principle impossible.
> 
> More: I think that we *must* have the bazzar style set of
> links.

I think we should have infrastructure to make this easy to integrate
in the 'normal format'.  This should include some way of using
multiple CVSup servers to upgrade the same tree.

Basically, you should be able to put up a cvsup server for ports, and
people add your entries to their supfile, and then your ports would
just magically appear in /usr/ports.

I don't think this is possible to do with cvsup collections as they
work today, but I'm not certain.  If it is possible, you should go
ahead and set up a cvsup server (and give out the suitable entries to
be able to cvsup the ports from there).

There is a problem with conflicts when your ports migrate from your
local tree to the generic CVS tree, of course.  I'm not certain how
this should be handled (one tree should probably be on override...)

Eivind.

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