From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 7:23: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8359037B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 07:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4CEN7d01177 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 10:23:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105121423.f4CEN7d01177@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports of development trees of applications? From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:23:07 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I keep toying with doing it for lyx, I wonder: are there any ports that, rather than porting a specific (and checksummed for safety) version, track the development trees for the applications? My thinking with lyx would be to have a port which does an original fetch, sets up the directory for configuration, has appropriate dependencies for lyx, and then leaves it to the user to install and compile. This would give an installed binary that behaves the "Expected" way, with appropriate entries in /var/db . . . Are there any ports like this? THey would also seem to be useful for mozilla, openoffice, and wine . . . -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message