Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 03:07:18 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ports hackers wanted! Message-ID: <199504091007.DAA05993@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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(Note: I've CC:ed this to "hackers" too for wider audience...if you are
following up, please send it to "ports" only...thanks)
I'm now working on a bunch of projects aimed at "a better, friendlier
ports scheme" (how nice! :). However, I'm severely short-handed and
at the rate things are going, most of my (brilliant!) ideas are not
going to make it into 2.1. This is sad!
So, I need help. If you are interested in one or more of the projects
listed in FreeBSD-current/src/TODO-2.1/asami, please contact me. In
particular, I need immediate help in the following areas:
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Update: Thu Apr 6 08:24:02 PDT 1995
Due: Hopefully before 2.1
Prio: High
Task: Enhance pkg_install
Again a couple of ideas here:
(1) Make pkg_create or pkg_add able to "register" a package from the
ports directory by looking into pkg/PLIST. We can then call this
from the "install" rule in bsd.port.mk so that the user can
pkg_delete it later.
(2) Add some way to include the dependency information (usually
LIB_DEPENDS, maybe EXEC_DEPENDS too but this one is harder 'cause
it may be required only for compilation) into the package so that
pkg_add will check for the existences and print out messages
advising users to fetch additional packages. This would be a
great enhancement over the current "ld.so: libfoo not found"
solution. :)
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Update: Thu Apr 6 08:30:43 PDT 1995
Due: Not specified
Prio: High
Task: A graphical front-end for port/package installation
There's already someone working on this (tkpkg). I also need to take
a look at pkg_manage. Jordan claims to have a better version. :)
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Thanks!
Satoshi
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