From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 00:39:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01097 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us (portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us [164.106.211.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01082 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us) Received: from localhost (djflow@localhost) by portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA10158; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 03:39:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 03:39:19 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Flowers To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC cc: Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Binary package updates, etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I've done some quick and dirty work on binary package updates and would like some comments on what I've got going, where to go in the future, etc. The files are located at http://portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us/~djflow/pkginfo Read the README file first to get an idea of what is happening. Basically, I just took the binary distribution off the 2.2.5-RELEASE cd and created a skeleton to get it to work with pkg_add. In theory, any binary updates would work with the same skeleton. There is still the problem with digital signatures and what to do about uninstalls, reverts, etc. but I would like some input before going too far. To create the actual package, download all the files and run the makepkg script. The package it creates is named "bin-2.2.5_RELEASE.pkg". If you plan to experiment with the package, be sure to change the target directory in the makepkg script otherwise IT WILL WIPE OUT YOUR CURRENT BINARY DISTRIBUTION. Let me know what you think. ---------------------------------------- Derek Flowers djflow@erols.com http://portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us/~djflow "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, circa 1981 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message