Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:48:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Michal Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: unification of distfiles for FreeBSD and NetBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0304031144180.15078-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <20030403185641.GA83538@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Michal Pasternak wrote: > I have a slow network connection and I built packages I need first > on FreeBSD. When I tried to do the same thing on NetBSD, it came > out that even, when both BSDs have the same versions of software > in ports/pkgsrc, they use different EXTRACT_SUFXs (not to mention, > FreeBSD has a bit different directory structure for distfiles). One workaround would be for you to make your own local FTP mirror of your already-downloaded distfiles (like ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/) and then, for NetBSD, add it to your MASTER_SITE_BACKUP. > My proposal is: could we, with some additional work, try to have > the same distfiles for each of BSDs? This would not only spare > the users download time (or work to correct EXTRACT_SUFX / DISTDIR), > but this could possibly reduce the need for distfile mirrors. Please show us an example. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ p.s. I should try using NetBSD pkgsrc on my FreeBSD boxes ...
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