From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 2 22:18:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5718E37B401; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B1243E75; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 22:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zaphod ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17m647-00066a-00; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:17:27 -0600 Message-ID: <3D7445D3.DAA2C9B9@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:17:07 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Simon 'corecode' Schubert , "David W. Chapman Jr." , rbeyer@rossbeyer.net, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: package tools into ports/ (was: Re: Bzipped?) References: <20020901142653.A32415@capable.rogards.com> <20020901191937.GI87971@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020902103215.36ae8e3b.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> <20020902085654.GH2072@procyon.firepipe.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:32:15AM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > > actually this would be a much smaller mess if we had the package tools > > (with source) in the ports tree. best with auto-update... > > do we want to do this? > > (x-posting to arch@) > > Yes we do. I plan to do this within the next week or so. OK, how do you install the package tools package onto the system if it doesn't come with package tools? Please note that I'm all for having the package tools in ports, because it will make the one last feature I want to add to them ever so much easier to build, but we do have to fix this chicken vs. egg probem first. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message