Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 21:18:33 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>, Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports scheme Message-ID: <19980702211833.07581@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701221950.27951A-100000@altrox.atipa.com>; from Atipa on Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:29:25PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980701231028.26909A-100000@hobbes.saturn-tech.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701221950.27951A-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:29:25PM -0600, Atipa wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote to Atipa: > > > > > P.S. You never did take up my challenge of proposing a better ports > > > collection design after raising such a ruckus about it before. Do you > > > also design, or only whine? :) > > > > What are we talking about, the directory structure? (Basically?) > > The basic change is to just have each directory tar and gziped as one > file, and have it expanded on demand, beit for CVS update, or building, > etc. Can you give the exact structure for how this would work, relating to CVSup, committing, and users updating ports? All of these need to work smoothly. BTW: Debian seems to be moving towards our model, after having used what I understand to be a very good version of what you're proposing... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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