Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:53:51 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Sten Daniel =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no>, "Peter Jeremy" <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, <gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <200309021153.51165.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net> References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:07, Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: > > >Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" > > >ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be > > > pretty useful to have something like that so that all of the > > > "prerequisites" can be installed at once. > > > > Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on > > what FreeBSD does now? If I try to install package X, it will > > automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their > > dependencies. > > That would ease the installation of port X on Y number of machines. > Same libraries, same everything, precompiled. > Otherwise one needs to manually track dependencies (not a terribly > difficult job) and make those as packages, and keep doing this until > all dependencies are as packages (in my case, i have several > light-weight servers/routers that have no gcc/make capabilities). > > If anyone knows of a program/script that will do this for me, please > speak up! portinstall -r -p pkgname will build a package for pkgname and all of=20 it's dependencies. =2D-=20 "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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