From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 12:16: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8AD914EA9; Mon, 31 May 1999 12:15:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18341.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.21]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA21926; Mon, 31 May 1999 15:16:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA13571; Mon, 31 May 1999 15:16:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:16:06 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Andrew Kenneth Milton Cc: Eivind Eklund , 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: <19990531151606.B13442@mad> References: <19990531155305.A55875@bitbox.follo.net> <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > 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, Has anyone involved in this discussion tried using the portcheckout script? It's in devel/portcheckout. It checkouts the current version of a port and its dependencies on demand. At one time, I gave wosch patches to optionally use ftp. Due to changes on wcarchive, I'm not sure those work anymore. Actually, I suspect the whole thing is suffering from a little bitrot, but you should at least have a look... -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message