From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 11 01:48:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D0216A402 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 01:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E08813C44C for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 01:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 29728 invoked by uid 1001); 11 May 2007 01:47:49 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Thu, 10 May 2007 21:47:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17987.52037.112351.872442@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:47:49 -0400 To: Ivan Voras In-Reply-To: References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.11 (Ladyburn) From: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 01:48:22 -0000 In , Ivan Voras typed: > I cannot currently actively participate in implementing proposed things, > but I can give advice on sqlite, database and xml schemas if anyone > wants to... One of the things that would be nice for a replacement to do would be to correctly install i386 packages on amd64 platforms (and similar things). The binaries will run if we have all the libraries installed, but getting them installed is painful. At the very least, an installed package needs to know what platform it was built for, so that packages being installed cross-platform have a chance of figuring out whether or not the installed version of FOO will work for them, or they need to get a version for their specific platform. If the new version can't make cross-platform installs work, hopefully that goal can be kept in mind while the work is beign done. Personally, I'd still like LOCALBASE to move out of /usr/local. Maybe it's time to reconsider that. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.