From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 08:20:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11C716A4D5 for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 08:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salvador.pacific.net.sg (salvador.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AF4E43DB7 for ; Tue, 4 May 2004 08:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 10645 invoked from network); 4 May 2004 15:20:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by salvador with SMTP; 4 May 2004 15:20:00 -0000 Received: from pacific.net.sg ([210.24.202.28]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20040504151959.RRLO1186.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@pacific.net.sg>; Tue, 4 May 2004 23:19:59 +0800 Message-ID: <4097B31D.9080205@pacific.net.sg> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 23:13:33 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040409 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Lea References: <20040504091043.GA1051@shale.local> In-Reply-To: <20040504091043.GA1051@shale.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: fpkg-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: FreePKG: An alternative to the pkg_* tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:20:11 -0000 Hi, Jeremy Lea wrote: > Hi, > > Some time ago, I began to work on adding some features to the > pkg_install tools. This work was mostly ignored by the FreeBSD > community (except for the bits stolen and committed without This is life. > FreePKG is an almost complete re-write of the pkg_* tools, aimed at > restructuring the code so that it is understandable and easy to use... > It has the following features which are not available in the pkg_* > tools. > > 1. Uses LIB_DEPEND and RUN_DEPEND style dependencies in packages, so > that you can run alternate versions, of say ghostscript, without > problems. This would be a very useful thing. > I have no intention of initiating any attempt to get these tools > imported into FreeBSD. I've decided on a very different approach to the > Ports/Packages collection to the way that things appear to be going. > However, these tools are functional, and some people might find them > useful. Additional developers/testers would be most welcome. So, how can a normal FreeBSD user make use of the tools? Erich