Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:31:15 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports collection for Solaris Message-ID: <38820063.EEF5CAB9@partitur.se> References: <XFMail.000115124955.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> <3881D7E3.A090D2@grant.org>
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Hi! Porting the ports collection to Solaris has been a dream of mine for quite some time, too... Michael Grant wrote: > > > Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>: > > I doubt it, but if anyone tries to, I would be surprised if they finished. > > There are 2,966 (?) ports to "port", in addition to perhaps a few changes to > > bsd.port.mk, among other things. > > Well, it was my hopes that most of the changes would be in bsd.port.mk and not > in the 3000 odd other Makefiles! A lot of things compile untouched on > Solaris. Secondly, it would be crazy for any one person to try and maintain > so many Makefiles! Better to put the infrastructure in place and let the > owner of each port tweek their Makefile if necessary. Yeah. Like NetBSD; they have of very small number of ports compared to FreeBSD, since not all has been ported again. It is usually very easy to take a FreeBSD port and use it with small or no modifications. > > Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> > > Out of curiosity, did you ask about interest for this on a *Solaris* > > list? They'd be a heck of a lot more interested in the idea ... it seems > > odd to ask for support for Solaris on a FreeBSD list. > > No, I thought I'd ask here first because I thought if anyone knew about a > ports collection for Solaris it'd be you folks. I am considering doing this > myself or atleast giving it a try and seeing how far I get. The right thing to do. If you ask a Solaris only sysadm, he'd probably never heard of "the ports collection", and would probably not understand the greatness of it right away. Many FreeBSD:ers, like myself, work with more than one unix dialect. ... > Porting freeBSD's make doesn't sound unreasonable. That seems a damn site > easier than changing 3000 Makefiles! So I've started to do this. I now have > a working freeBSDmake on Solaris. I've started looking at bsd.port.mk. sounds great! > Is this list the correct place to discuss a more portable ports collection? > If so, I'll join, if not, I'll go away! Probably not in the long run. We'll need our own mailing list sooner or later... /Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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