From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 2 13:15:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FFF37B416 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 13:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g22Knec58499 for ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:45:35 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vim port Message-ID: <20020302124535.A58160@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020302190426.A64508@energyhq.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020302190426.A64508@energyhq.homeip.net>; from flynn@energyhq.homeip.net on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:04:26PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:04:26PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > I've just installed the vim port on my NetBSD box and have seen how they > manage the million of patches thing. The way their port works is by fetching > the main vim tarball and then a single diff from the NetBSD ftp site > that upgrades the source to the current version, in this case it was > 220. I know that 6.1 is coming soon, but could we have a similar system > so we don't need to call fetch 200 times? I am not going to put the time into investigating this. If someone can post a URL that allows me to quickly look at the setup, I'll consider if I would accept a patch to do this. But I am satisfied with the current set up, so this has to be driven by someone else. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message