From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 9:18:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from three.overmind.ch (three.overmind.ch [194.191.120.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8730014A2D for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pajarola@cybertime.ch) Received: from tiamat.dlc.cybertime.ch (gw2-05.cybertime.ch [194.191.120.181]) by three.overmind.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA55906 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:18:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pajarola@cybertime.ch) Message-Id: <4.1.19990606130200.00a01be0@mail.cybertime.ch> Message-Id: <4.1.19990606130200.00a01be0@mail.cybertime.ch> Message-Id: <4.1.19990606130200.00a01be0@mail.cybertime.ch> X-Sender: pajarola@shrike.overmind.ch X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:18:02 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rico Pajarola Subject: Re: Ports (was Re: SSH2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thu, 3 Jun 1999 22:34 James Wyatt wrote >The ports collection just flat rocks! It's the only thing better than >packages. I frequently use the ports to take the first whack at something >before I port it to AIX or Linux. My FreeBSD laptop is a good porting >tool - Jy@ Ports are what I usually show to the Linux people if I want to impress them ;) Ports make it very easy (trivial) to install custom modified software, while still having it under control of the native package system. It's also for the 'i-want-to-compile-it-myself' people (like me) who nevertheless want to benefit from package management (pkg_delete, pkg_info etc). It's also very easy to make your own ports. Has anybody ever thought of porting the ports mechanism to something like Linux, Solaris or even AIX (porting to AIX usually is a real pain...)? The ports should then create rpm's, dpkg's or bff's (or whatever). Any idea how difficult this would be? -- Rico To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message