From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 5 10:47:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25543 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:47:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papagaio.voga.com.br (papagaio.voga.com.br [200.239.39.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA25534 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by papagaio.voga.com.br(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.06 (346.7 3-18-1997)) id 032564EA.00620479 ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:50:36 -0300 X-Lotus-FromDomain: VOGA From: "Daniel Sobral" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <032564EA.0060DE9E.00@papagaio.voga.com.br> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:46:57 -0300 Subject: FreeBSD and pkgs Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Some comments in the tcl vs ports thread, plus my current work with an AIX system, made me consider the following question: would it be possible/interesting/useful to use the existing pkg mechanism (used by packages and ports), or an improved version of it, to control versions in FreeBSD source and, possibly, patches? It's obvious that tools for migrating cvs information (or any other future source control system) to pck information would have to be used. It's not as obvious that we the resulting size could well exceed the available space on most /var partitions around. On the other hand, make world could use this information, if available, easing the pains and reducing the make world time. Possibly *greatly* reducing it. So, it seems the idea has it's shares of merits and flaws. My question is: has this been considered before? Can anyone add to the list of merits and flaws?