Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:23:22 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports Message-ID: <20040414032321.GA42688@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]>
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--VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:40:59PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > [this is BCC'ed to -hackers and -arch just so everyone has a > chance to see it, but I expect the bulk of the discussion > should take place on the freebsd-ports mailing list] >=20 > Back in January I send out a long-ish email asking for feedback > on some ideas I had for the ports-collection. I received a fair > number of comments, and have finally re-organized my ideas into > a few web pages. Hopefully these will make more sense. >=20 > Initially I had written the ideas up as a bunch of Wiki pages, > but the machine holding that Wiki died, taking with it all the > pages I had written... I have not proof-read the web pages, > so there's probably some spelling mistakes and odd sentences > on them. Apologies for that, but I wanted to get *something* > sent out this week. This project has been blocked due to a > lack of time on my part, and I want to get it moving again... >=20 > The basic idea is to collapse many of the separate files for a > port into a single pkg-data file. The web pages explain why I > think this might be worth doing. Please check them out at: >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/PkgData/ Instead of inventing new tools and file formats for this, you could just use a shar archive to collapse ports into a single file (well, two, since you'd still need a makefile to extract the shar) and be done with it. Personally I have doubts about whether this is worthwhile since it could complicate the lives of developers, but I'd have to see a prototype before passing final judgement. Most of the other stuff you talk about can be done with makefile-based ports with equivalent effort. Kris --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfK6pWry0BWjoQKURAo8EAJ48g4YP/T7pCa5z7EZk/qIEOucCZwCfTveU me01V6aI6DYqGYETREO/5fk= =rNnP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J--
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