From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 16:04:02 2010 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 872DF1065672 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:04:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 084628FC28 for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAAFjC4w091092 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:45:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAAFjBII053529 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:45:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oAAFjBwJ053528; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:45:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:45:11 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Message-ID: <20101110154511.GC46822@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4cda516f.CsCJyXi6dA77aINL%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4cda516f.CsCJyXi6dA77aINL%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.4 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:45:12 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dnaeon@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interactive tool for installing packages 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: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:04:02 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 10), perryh@pluto.rain.com said: > Marin Atanasov Nikolov wrote: > > in order to install the program, you need to: > > > > # git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it > ... > > Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :) > > Dunno about anyone else, but from my standpoint it would be a _big_ > improvement to provide a more recent snapshot than the 6-month-old > pkg_add_it-1.2.tar.gz on ftp.freebsd.org so one doesn't have to install > git, with its boatload of dependencies*, to see the recent improvements. > > * The amount of stuff downloaded by > cd /usr/ports/devel/git ; make fetch-recursive > is, shall we say, impressive. I use the devel/hg-git port to pull all the git trees I need to access using mercurial. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com