From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 6 13:34:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09353 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA09316 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 13:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilligan.eng.umd.edu (gilligan.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.21]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.Gamma.0/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA17435; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:34:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by gilligan.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12523; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:34:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gilligan.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 16:34:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@gilligan.eng.umd.edu To: -Vince- cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: contrib in -current In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > Does anyone know what contrib is used for in -current and is it > required for a make world? Thanks. Several large packages that were not written with BSD in mind have had their sources relocated to contrib, where they are supposedly being kept relatively free of patches, on the theory that this will make upgrading those packages simpler, when new updates are brought in. Mostly you'll find stuff that's already been part of current for a while, but there are already some new additions there. One good example is groff, which used to be part of /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin. A year from now, we'll probably know more, to see if this method really has made things simpler or not. I like it so far. > > Vince > GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Network System Admin > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------