From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 23:20:04 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 A67C616A4FA for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salvador.pacific.net.sg (salvador.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6750443D3F for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 2109 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2004 06:20:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by salvador with SMTP; 13 Apr 2004 06:20:01 -0000 Received: from pacific.net.sg ([210.24.202.50]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20040413062001.SYLE1186.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@pacific.net.sg>; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:20:01 +0800 Message-ID: <407B862A.3010209@pacific.net.sg> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:18:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040409 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports 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: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:20:04 -0000 Hi, Mark Linimon wrote: >>>>This could lead to a general system where any number of different >>>>versions of a package or port could be installed on the machine >>>>without any interferance. >>> >>>That's a very different problem. >>> >> >>But it is what I meant. > > > You may be interested to learn that DragonFly BSD has this as one of > their medium-term goals -- but even for them, it is somewhat of a > "research topic" that is going to require some fairly involved > infrastructure changes. My guess is that that will be months away, > at least. > > In the meantime, with all the other challenges that the FreeBSD ports > team is facing (making as many ports as possible run on 5.x in > preparation for the branch to 5-STABLE; reworking of compile/install > options handling; the currently high rate of PR arrival), this item is > probably going to remain on the FreeBSD ports wish-list for quite some > time to come. > I know. This is something to be picked up by a new developer. It could be me. I did things like this a very long time ago. Erich