Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:08:56 -1430 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: newton@internode.com.au (Mark Newton) Cc: akm@mail.theinternet.com.au, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@webgiro.com, taavi@uninet.ee, kaj@raditex.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? Message-ID: <199905311538.BAA23885@gizmo.internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199905311534.BAA23855@gizmo.internode.com.au> from "Mark Newton" at Jun 1, 99 01:04:43 am
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Mark Newton wrote:
> /usr/ports/buildenv would contain everything that the non-special-case
> /usr/ports directories currently contain, except the Makefiles. They'd
> continue to live in their present location.
I thought of another advantage of this approach: You can upgrade
existing ports on your system (but not add new ones) by doing
an "rm -rf /usr/ports/buildenv". Next time you build a port the
latest version of the build environment, supplementary makefiles,
patches, distfile locations, etc can be sucked over from ftp.freebsd.org
- mark
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