From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 3 14:27:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from aaz.links.ru (aaz.links.ru [193.125.152.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422EF37B403; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from babolo@localhost) by aaz.links.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA03044; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 01:28:11 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <200206032128.BAA03044@aaz.links.ru> Subject: Re: Splitting up ports. In-Reply-To: from "Julian Elischer" at "Jun 3, 2 10:28:42 am" To: julian@elischer.org (Julian Elischer) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 01:28:11 +0400 (MSD) Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG From: "."@babolo.ru MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Julian Elischer writes: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 .@babolo.ru wrote: > > > Maxim Sobolev writes: > > > Unfortunately it isn't as easy as it sounds. There are many places where > > Yes, I understand. But ... > > > 2-level structure (category/portname) is assumed (for example: pkg_install, > > > portupgrade, portbuild, bsd.port.mk, ports www pages etc), therefore unless > > ... bsd.port.mk is easy - see PR 38593 (oh, sorry - distfiles > > was not up to day - repaired). > > Some of tools works with third levels ports as is: pkgdb, pib > > I do not use portbuild, pkg_install - do not try. > > > > > someone is willing to find and fix all those places there will be no move > > > forward. So far I do not see somebody willing and capable of doing that. > > > > > > -Maxim > > > > unless teh group declares that it is an eventual aim to be able to support > > mor ethan 2 levels it will never happen. > > If the group declares that EVENTUALLY they would like to support > 2 > levels then everyone can keep this in mind as they work on things.. > > another possibility is to use the current scheme as teh 'inode' level and > have a totally separate 'directory layer' that has a different > organisation using symlinks . Directories have fixed hierarchy. Databases are not (usually). Databases operations are much inexpensive. (make index as example) -- @BABOLO http://links.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message