From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 21 0:32:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5629B37B403 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 00:32:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ulthwe.dyndns.org (co3058260-a.rochd1.qld.optushome.com.au [203.164.193.240]) by mail016.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9L7Vth12239 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:31:56 +1000 From: Peter Brown Message-ID: <15314.31549.46794.529610@ulthwe.dyndns.org> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 17:37:33 +1000 To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: new cvs based port idea X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.4 (patch 5) "Civil Service (candidate 1)" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: rendhalver@users.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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