From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 08:39:22 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 94E7216A417 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:39:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: from lab.alexdupre.com (cl-506.trn-01.it.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:1418:100:1f9::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46B313C4D3 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 33151 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2007 08:39:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO athlon.alexdupre.com) (192.168.178.2) by lab.alexdupre.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2007 08:39:20 -0000 Message-ID: <4747E337.7060400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:39:19 +0100 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071123) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4747A1FB.9000707@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4747A1FB.9000707@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 08:39:22 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > 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? And why not the portsnap database instead? It seems the default/recommended method today. -- Alex Dupre