From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 17:53:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865DF16A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:53:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48D0743D46 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:53:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ges@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C931F44B6; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:53:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (caduceus.wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34018-09; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [64.32.179.50]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C221F449D; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41643117.5020007@wingfoot.org> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 13:53:27 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Thunderbird/0.8 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Jensen References: <148D64496E077C4DAF1FA4BBC6F74DA61BFA1C@corp1.implicit.implicitnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <148D64496E077C4DAF1FA4BBC6F74DA61BFA1C@corp1.implicit.implicitnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at wingfoot.org cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootstrap Port X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:53:32 -0000 Christian Jensen said the following on 10/6/2004 1:39 PM: >Is there any plans for a bootstrap port? What I mean is there anything >that can take a mini install and bring it up to date easily? I am >looking at something that would do: > > You might want to look at misc/instant-workstation I used it as a skeleton to create a port for workstations at Lumeta. (I see the port's changed since the last time I saw it.. Hmm.. I wonder how you would apply patches to .conf files with the new layout.. hmm.) Good luck! :) Best, Glenn -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759