Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:14:30 -0800 From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970307091430.00918910@pop.calweb.com> In-Reply-To: <4821.857735697@time.cdrom.com>
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At 03:54 AM 3/7/97 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>I've been thinking about this for awhile, and I'm wondering whether or
>not 2.2 might be a good time to unleash /usr/ports as a distribution
>tarball as part of the release.
I could certainly live with that. We end up doing that here in the
end *anyways*..
>it's no longer supported by sysinstall anyway (it was too slow). If I
>made ports a simple distribution, similar to the ``compat*'' dists, it
>would be trivial to add it to sysinstall's list of nifty things to
>load and one could also elect to do it at any later time with the same
>install.sh script the other dists have.
I would make it an *option* - people installing on small partitions
(I'm guilty - I'm about to turn my OS2 system into FreeBSD and with
small drives ;-) instead of a required function.
>a *huge* array of questions with "No problem, go to /usr/ports/blah/feh
>and do a ``make install clean'' to install the optional gadget you're
One suggestion: add (if possible) "make refresh" or "make update"
or "make current" or *something* that would allow one to easy update
the PORTS directory to whatever is current for that version of the OS.
I don't know how hard it would be to make that an *efficient* mechanism -
personally, I just suck down the entire tar file to update, but I'm
also not at the end of a 28k modem.
>Comments? Partially fermented fruit?
I'd share the partially fermented fruit juice with ya, but you won't
accept :-). Tsk, it's from a fine year as well :-).
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