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Cc: ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
Subject: Re: CFT: adding configuration file support to pkg_install
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Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> This adds support for /etc/pkg.conf configuration file.
>> Also, this adds support for naive multi-site package fetching.
>>
>> Any comment welcome (and appreciated).
>>
>> Patch is here: 
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-config.diff
>> Tarball is here:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-0a553aac.tar.bz2
> Hi flz,
> 
> I don't quite get what the end goal is.  It looks like /etc/pkg.conf is 
> duplicating a lot of things already in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.
> 
> Would not it be better to just have the pkg_install tools read that file 
> instead ?

packages are usually built from the ports tree, but not always, and 
users may use packages without a ports tree present on the local system.

Kris