From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Dec 6 12:14:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA10091 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA10086 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 12:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA20967; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:12:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:12:29 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Warner Losh cc: Gary Kline , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? In-Reply-To: <199712061723.KAA18629@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [phk sent a similar mail, but it had a much too long cc: list I hope everyone relevant sees it anyway] On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199712060810.AAA20945@tao.thought.org> Gary Kline writes: > : If there are fewer than 10 gotchas, a merger still makes > : sense to me. If OpenBSD is too different from FreeBSD, > : NetBSD shouldn't be. > > shouldn't be a big deal. however, in practice it turns out to be a > big deal. there are at least 100 gotchas. everything from some ports Some of which should be corrected anyway. > assuming i386, to missing libraries, to differences in how man pages The target processor should be encoded somewehere, assuming something about it is no good . Missing libraries? They just need #ifdefs around the depenency lines (+ some {Open, Net}BSD specific ports). Installing man pages should be done using a script lie install-man (which can be plaform specific so it always get's done right). I haven't seen the list, but I would bet that half of them are of this type. > are stored, to ... well you get the idea. there is more hair here > than meets the eye. > Sure. Having a unified ports collection is that big a task that it certainly requires co-operation from all the parties. The conversion would have to be done port at a time anyways. > Warner > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.