From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 31 15:11: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1306D15543 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 15:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA29830; Mon, 31 May 1999 18:10:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from witr@rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199905312210.SAA29830@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Taavi Talvik Cc: Rasmus Kaj , witr@rwwa.com, dlombardo@excite.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 May 1999 13:15:20 +0300." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 18:10:37 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org taavi@uninet.ee said: :- CVSup is definitely easiest way to keep well defined collection of :- files up to date. Yes, but who ever uses even a *small* fraction of the available ports? For a end user system or even a local server to try to keep the ports files up to date seems like a lot of wasted effort and space. What I was suggesting was this: cd /usr/ports/ make This would ftp the port for whatever, then continue just as if the port was already there. Seems like one just need add a "portfetch" target. And deal with dependencies... Another thing I'd like to see would be to have the "fetch" target look in another place after /usr/ports/distfiles and before trying to do a ftp. That way I could mount the cdrom and the port system would look there before doing the ftp. A final thing I'd like to see would be to have a more regular naming convention for ports that includes the version... I may attempt to implement the first two things someday... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message