Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:43:57 +0200 From: Rolandas Naujikas <rolnas@takas.lt> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: will@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About ports building Message-ID: <20020320064357.A304@rolnas.takas.lt> In-Reply-To: <20020319201250.B15643@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:12:50PM -0800 References: <20020319081956.A569@rolnas.takas.lt> <20020319201250.B15643@xor.obsecurity.org>
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The reasons to work on this are: 1) learn to program in shell language; 2) make easy to maintain some set of ports from installing to updating; 3) make automated scripts for this set of ports with parameters to compile; 4) also fetch and checksum this set much speeded than fetch-recursive and checksum-recursive; 5) there was problems with autoconf* and automake* set of ports with workaround only deinstall all them and let port install itself (not need more now); 6) automatic-ly cleanup working directory before making ports (save space, and lets to make such big ports like XFree86-4); 7) study shell possibilities over perl; 8) possible some features can be incorporated into already existing tools like porteasy or portupgrade. Sincerely Rolandas On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:12:50PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:19:57AM +0200, Rolandas Naujikas wrote: > > > > I have wrote some shell code to make life with the ports (re)building easy. > > Not all code is finished yet, but make_install function is working. > > > > There is make_install shell function's library, and make_rolnas is my home > > computer customized ports building/installing script. > > > > Sources are avalaible at http://www.mif.vu.lt/~rolnas/FreeBSD/. > > I don't want to discourage you from your project, but are you aware > that a number of existing tools already include similar functionality? > Portupgrade and porteasy spring to mind. > > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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