From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 15 8:18:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC5437B402; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FGGtG54496; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:16:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:16:55 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Ken Stailey Cc: klh@panix.com, petef@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: complete pkg-descr files for klh-10 and its Message-ID: <20020215161655.GA54470@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <3C6D2443.2070201@surfbest.net> <20020215152218.GA53862@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C6D2E51.8090403@surfbest.net> <20020215155946.GA54173@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3C6D32A7.50003@surfbest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C6D32A7.50003@surfbest.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:09:11AM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote: >Alan Eldridge wrote: > >>On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:50:41AM -0500, Ken Stailey wrote: >> >>>Alan Eldridge wrote: >>> >> >>I recommend against a default under /usr in general, but, if pressed, it >>could go under /usr/local/share/its. I copied portmgr@ in order to get >>suggestions for this. >> >Doesn't share imply architecture-independant? Why would an i386 binary >go under share? games sounds like a better place to put it: No, for the its disk image. >> >>>>If it isn't a per user install, then locking needs to be in place to make >>>>sure no more than one copy of klh10 is running. >>>> >> >>I don't think there's a way around this. It can be invoked with the >>lockf(1) >>command to make this easy. A wrapper script would be needed to do this. >> >Your thinking goes against the grain of this port. No, it agrees with it. >The emulator is a timesharing system. Please read Steve Levy's Hackers book. I did. When it first came out in 1984(?). (I was designing videodisc-based PC-multimedia POS systems at the time. Did you know that programmable videodisc players from Pioneer had a Forth interpreter in them?) >Why on >earth would you run multple separate copies of a timesharing system? You wouldn't. I'm trying to enforce this. >There should be one shared instance of klh-10 on one node to preserve >historical approach to timesharing and prevent squandering host CPU and >disk resources. See previous comment. If you don't enforce it, running two copies could trash your disk image. >>And speaking of packages, its needs to be marked NO_CDROM. It's just too >>big. >> >NO_WRKSUBDIR= NO_WRKSUBDIR= yes >NO_BUILD= NO_BUILD= yes >NO_PACKAGE= Image is too big. NO_PACKAGE= ITS disk image is too big. >NO_CDROM= NO_CDROM= ITS disk image is too big. -- Alan Eldridge "Dave's not here, man." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message