Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:05:20 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990531134634.12812e-100000@elect8>
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> > Moving these files to ftp requires good automatic means to keep > > ftp servers updated. However as of today there are no such means > > available. > > > > CVSup is definitely easiest way to keep well defined collection > > of files up to date. > > Folks, how about _admitting_ finally that our ports collection is a > database? We wouldn't need anything else than standard system tools to > maintain a ports.db file containing all that we want as DB records. Some thoughts: 1) Cvsupping the while database on every change or writing YAT (Yet Another Tool) to do this properly 2) Keeping things like Makefiles, descriptions, patches in a database 3) making it a binary file instead of Human Readable ASCII IMHO we'd end with something as silly as an OO database. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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