From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 8:19:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.theinternet.com.au (zeus.theinternet.com.au [203.34.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C9314BE5; Mon, 31 May 1999 08:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akm@mail.theinternet.com.au) Received: (from akm@localhost) by mail.theinternet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA92145; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:21:46 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from akm) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton Message-Id: <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au> Subject: Re: a two-level port system? In-Reply-To: <19990531155305.A55875@bitbox.follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 31, 1999 3:53: 5 pm" To: eivind@FreeBSD.ORG (Eivind Eklund) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:21:46 +1000 (EST) Cc: abial@webgiro.com, taavi@uninet.ee, kaj@raditex.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org +----[ Eivind Eklund ]--------------------------------------------- | On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 01:02:50PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: | > 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. | | Rule #1: Any change to the ports collection must not make it harder | for the ports committers to keep the ports collection up to date. | Rule #2: Any change to the ports collection must not make it harder | for people to help out with the ports collection. How about optionally tarring the 'files' and 'patches' subdirs (into seperate tarfiles or as one tarfile) to be extracted when the port is needed. This would make cvsupping ports 'harder' I would imagine, although not impossible, given the .uu files I've seen for /compat stuff recently. 'Harder' is an awkward word, it has too many meanings in this context. One meaning says that any extra exertion required rules out the change, one meaning says that extra complexity rules out the change. I'm not sure which one you mean or if you indeed mean both. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message