Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:12:29 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971206220227.20840C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199712061723.KAA18629@harmony.village.org>
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[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
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