Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:38:16 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <19971205233816.15333@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <199712052004.NAA16482@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 08:04:13PM %2B0000 References: <28074.881287489@time.cdrom.com> <199712052004.NAA16482@usr08.primenet.com>
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[maintaining post to both -ports and -current -- IMHO it is
relevant]
Terry Lambert writes:
>
> I like this. I think that there should be coordination with the
> OpenBSD and NetBSD folks to make sure they are usable "out of the box"
> for them as well. It could become simply "The BSD ports collection".
YES! I definitely agree with this idea -- since OpenBSD already
uses the ports... Having a common set of CD's / archives that
any *BSD user could pull buy / pull down from the net would
certainly increase the "presence" as marketdroids like
to call it.
> You may want to coordinate with BSDI, if at all possible...
Hmmm. It does seem that there hasn't been so much cooperation
with BSDI since doscmd was donated...
> This should probably wait for ELF, though, since all the other BSD's
> are ELF now...
Argh. Now my question :-) -- apart from our ports/package system,
there also exists at least 2 other package systems out there (all
Linux):
- debian package (with hard/soft dependencies scheme)
- RedHat
And I know we have the "rpm" tool in /usr/port/misc.
How difficult/sick/twisted would it be to have some kind
of skeleton like "ports" which would be a superset of
wrappers for RPM/Debian _packages_ (not so many, only
the binary stuff we can't get in source), and then
go into the "/usr/ports/blah/foo" and do make, just
like we did when BSDI Netscape was in ports ?
(or even better: pkg_add ApplixWare-x.x.rpm) ?
I'll go and take my pills now.
--
-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
"Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and
the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?"
- S. Kelly Bootle, about Cerberus ["MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib] -
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