From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 5 14:39:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA18332 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:39:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA18326; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:39:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA17434; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 01:16:39 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id AAA10044; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 00:03:32 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id XAA02195; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:38:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19971205233816.15333@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:38:16 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: Terry Lambert Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? References: <28074.881287489@time.cdrom.com> <199712052004.NAA16482@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199712052004.NAA16482@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 08:04:13PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [maintaining post to both -ports and -current -- IMHO it is relevant] Terry Lambert writes: > > I like this. I think that there should be coordination with the > OpenBSD and NetBSD folks to make sure they are usable "out of the box" > for them as well. It could become simply "The BSD ports collection". YES! I definitely agree with this idea -- since OpenBSD already uses the ports... Having a common set of CD's / archives that any *BSD user could pull buy / pull down from the net would certainly increase the "presence" as marketdroids like to call it. > You may want to coordinate with BSDI, if at all possible... Hmmm. It does seem that there hasn't been so much cooperation with BSDI since doscmd was donated... > This should probably wait for ELF, though, since all the other BSD's > are ELF now... Argh. Now my question :-) -- apart from our ports/package system, there also exists at least 2 other package systems out there (all Linux): - debian package (with hard/soft dependencies scheme) - RedHat And I know we have the "rpm" tool in /usr/port/misc. How difficult/sick/twisted would it be to have some kind of skeleton like "ports" which would be a superset of wrappers for RPM/Debian _packages_ (not so many, only the binary stuff we can't get in source), and then go into the "/usr/ports/blah/foo" and do make, just like we did when BSDI Netscape was in ports ? (or even better: pkg_add ApplixWare-x.x.rpm) ? I'll go and take my pills now. -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- "Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?" - S. Kelly Bootle, about Cerberus ["MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib] -