Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:09:17 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of a port... Message-ID: <199806180739.RAA17052@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:33:47 %2B0200." <Pine.SOL.3.90.980618092828.26102C-100000@rrzc6>
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> You can't depend on an existing ports tree when installing compiled > binaries. You'll have (probably again via a tuned pkg_info) parse the Hmm.. good point :-/ > @depends lines of the package in question, and then go in recursively as > long as the package isn't already installed. Yeah.. or recursivley get their sizes.. > > Of course we could get RPM and start there, since it has lots of the featur > > we want already.. > To be honest, I've never looked at it. > I only know that there's a book on RPM... maybe we should document the > *BSD ports (and packages :) system in some book, too. :-) Yeah, I have only had a little look myself.. Seems to have some nice ideas tho. > > Heheh :) Yeah.. I plead sanity.. ie I'm not insane enough to know make that > > well ;) > Well, here's your big chance to gain that knowledge. :) Ahh, but I wish to remain sane!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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