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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
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.

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