From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 02:58:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD0C106566B for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 02:58:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kimelto@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE5C8FC12 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 02:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so3222904bwz.3 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 19:58:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=9y6Ka2inSqCRfLUY9Td+J/X4kfvRRk4vJAKhACewM+w=; b=APDZJvGaJ7AoV7KXGI2czU8Iw9PNs4fFTqq5+S2RZYLyxwqTL5UTlLFgH3JCW6o/S0 1kDXaYiW9+Zc/+hHAaBNvO2GcSIlZEefNf4x5YQfum0lSMusLfd2cYMjtadLOw+25Rop YrLRdrkvb499AWbqlNiWiKMrKllr2B2TTk39Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=aGzO8H8QbUz+1v5bHViZzKYxGiK1MDTAhzirmPRvGTXRRFKgL4rLoXCtcofoW4YFYF vHmuZ3NEmqigMKHI1oDsiavudBrdCk/gM5u76kDDkc5kX8USkK5apjBKWeJy9ipG4uKG P54wByXBfMWwczat/t6WkyM0HRJ9xPU3xkRNM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.22.79 with SMTP id m15mr1912098bkb.80.1273114717033; Wed, 05 May 2010 19:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.59.135 with HTTP; Wed, 5 May 2010 19:58:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100506023457.GA45107@atarininja.org> References: <20100506023457.GA45107@atarininja.org> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 19:58:36 -0700 Message-ID: From: Julien Laffaye To: Wesley Shields Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Andrew Brampton , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 02:58:47 -0000 On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Wesley Shields 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 >> 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