Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:37:33 +1000 From: Peter Brown <rendhalver@users.sourceforge.net> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: new cvs based port idea Message-ID: <15314.31549.46794.529610@ulthwe.dyndns.org>
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hi all i have been toying with the idea of writing a port for mozilla using cvs to get the source instead od having to download the 25+ meg bzip on each upgrade. having to download a 25+ meg file for mozilla each time is begining to annoy me, especially when a cvs version would make it quicker. the idea i had is as follows rewrite the port so that it does a cvs -z3 update -r "RELEASE_TAG" when the version changes. i also thought of submitting the patches to the mozilla developers that would make updating the port a simple matter of updating the PORTVERSION as the CVS tag will be based on that. i also with to put switches in to disable the mail/news portions of mozilla or having it not build them by default to make the port smaller and quicker than the 5-6 hours it currently takes to build on my machine. i realise this will change the pkg-plist file, i will workout how that can be split into sections. i have not completed my port yet but i will submit it when i believe it is ready, whick should be soon (2 weeks maximum). i am basing this version on 0.9.5, i figured it was a good place to start. comments/assistance are welcome. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter (Rendhalver) XEmacs Advocate Perl Hacker Apache God FreeBSD Devote rendhalver@users.sourceforge.net do not try and bend the spoon, thats impossible. but try to realise the truth. and that is? there is no spoon. - Neo and child Prodigy - The Matrix ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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