From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 31 12:53:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (unknown [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A429D15332; Mon, 31 May 1999 12:52:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA024715067; Mon, 31 May 1999 11:37:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:37:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , mladavac@metropolitan.at, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199905311206.OAA19033@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I am primarily concerned with that, and secondly with mainteinance > issues when you have a new/updated port, you generally need to touch > the Makefile and one or more files in pkg, and the info in pkg/* is > often the same comments you would put at the beginning of the makefile. Yes, but this would be a PITA for package building and parsing. Please understand (everyone) that there is more to the ports tree then building a port by hand. The web pages are built from the structure, pkg_* depends on files being there (and not having to parse a single file). - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message