From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 14:02:39 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A315D10656B4 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:02:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35AE38FC13 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:02:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m8RE2bJM028060 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 166 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B5089F01 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 1519310B; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:36 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080927140236.GA73536@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.166]); Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:02:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8346/Sat Sep 27 09:08:52 2008 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 48DE3CFD.009 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 48DE3CFD.009/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 48DE3CFD.009 on jchkmail.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.023 -> S=0.023 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Subject: Re: My interactive version of pkg_add X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:02:39 -0000 Marin Atanasov wrote: > So what do you think - is it worth improving upon it or it's a waste of > time? > Thanks for any suggestions. I think it is worth improving and certainly not a waste of time. Each work which allows to use precompiled packages more efficiently in FreeBSD is very useful, in my opinion. While compiling ports is very fine on a server, where only a small number of ports are installed - and then the tool "portmaster" does that really wonderfully, looking at the other extreme, a desktop with around a thousand installed ports is better managed through precompiled packages. And, sorry, but portupgrade is not the solution to do that, either with the -P or -PP option. I can only concur with the suggestion you mention, exploring ftp sites to discover what is available here. How to do that efficiently is harder. Apparently "official" FreeBSD ftp sites have an INDEX of available packages. I hope it is reliable. Then i suggest to download it and work from that. Best regards -- Michel TALON