From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 7 09:22:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29712 for current-outgoing; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [208.131.56.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29705; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:22:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from devnull (devnull.calweb.com [208.131.56.69]) by mail.calweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01270; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:19:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970307091430.00918910@pop.calweb.com> Warning: Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) will be returned to send in bulk X-Sender: jfesler@pop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 09:14:30 -0800 To: ports@freebsd.org From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4821.857735697@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 :-). -- Jason Fesler jfesler@calweb.com Internic: 'whois jf319' Admin, CalWeb Internet Services http://www.calweb.com Junk email returned, in bulk, back to sender; w/copies to all postmasters. You got junk mail problems? Use Eudora Pro, MSIE's mail, or 'man procmail'.