From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 5:38:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns.uninet.ee (ns.uninet.ee [194.204.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1F815135; Mon, 31 May 1999 05:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taavi@uninet.ee) Received: from localhost (taavi@localhost) by ns.uninet.ee (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA22007; Mon, 31 May 1999 15:37:49 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:37:49 +0300 (EEST) From: Taavi Talvik To: Ladavac Marino Cc: "'Nick Hibma'" , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: a two-level port system? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617962F@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 31 May 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: Disadvantage: With one big file it is next to impossible to build version 1.1.1 of one port and 1.1.2 of another. With current model i can check out specific branch for all files/ports separately. best regards, taavi > Basically the format will be > graphics > graphics/gimp > graphics/gimp/Makefile > > > > It will be trivial to expand it into directories in order to > build ports, and compact directories into the file once the port has > been added/updated. > > Advantages: > 1) the file behaves like any other source file as far as CVS and > CVSup is concerned: one stores and transfers diffs only > 2) shar does it (and this will not be much different) > 3) well, it is ascii :) ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10-412 | fax: +372 6405151 EE0001, Tallinn, Estonia | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message