From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 20 09:14:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10977 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA10972 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id BAA03744; Wed, 21 May 1997 01:43:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705201613.BAA03744@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ddd-1.0.tar.gz in distfiles dir In-Reply-To: <15231.864141213@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "May 20, 97 08:13:33 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 01:43:25 +0930 (CST) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > Would it be possible to scan the Makefiles for all "supported" > > release of freebsd, make a list of the "DISTFILES" which are in > > use, and put all the others in a different place ? I am asking > > because the distfiles dir is becoming way too large and hard to > > reproduce locally. > > It would be possible, yes. Probable? I don't know. That depends > on what kind of script you end up writing for Satoshi. ;-) You would want to start by having one of each sort of system, and continually checking which ports run on which systems. Once you had that, adding such functionality to PIB (ports/sysutils/pib) would be relatively straightforward. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[