Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:58:36 -0700 From: Julien Laffaye <kimelto@gmail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup Message-ID: <x2wfee671621005051958ja727a8edo61aca4f3bc3fe240@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100506023457.GA45107@atarininja.org> References: <i2jfee671621005031928m7672c08bk5f6f74cca2b50bad@mail.gmail.com> <u2zd41814901005040315mb53c0a8ejd9baed87454af35c@mail.gmail.com> <v2ofee671621005041030j7eedf416o9e5b98dd16e72bac@mail.gmail.com> <20100506023457.GA45107@atarininja.org>
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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote: >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton >> <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Julien, >> > >> > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a >> > complete package over many individual ones? >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. >> your packages are built with non default options and you think its >> overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a >> complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb >> device), which is less error prone than 150 files. >> The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired >> ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the >> machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! > > Do you intend to add the "complete-package" target also or is that out > of scope? > Yes, it is scheduled to add the ability to build complete packages from the ports tree. The name of the target is not yet endorsed but I think that "complete-package" is pretty straight forward. Regards, Julien
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