From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 04:01:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E479716A41B for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A92EC13C47E for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 15610 invoked by uid 399); 24 Nov 2007 04:01:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO lap.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2007 04:01:01 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <4747A1FB.9000707@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:59 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Idea about the ports tree included in the release X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 04:01:02 -0000 In thinking about the guy who posted to -stable about using the tar'ed up version of the ports tree, I had an idea that would make that more useful. How hard would it be to include the c[v]sup checkouts file with the tarball, and install it into some standard location? I think that would greatly increase the utility of the tarball, since you could start from there and immediately update to the latest version without having to pull down the whole tree again. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection