Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:13:41 +0200
From: Clement Laforet <sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org>
To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
Cc: ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:52:23 +0400 Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> wrote: > > It was primarily written to make a smooth migration from current 2 > > levels ports tree to a hypothetic 3 levels ports tree, > > Question 2 portmgr: is this planned? At least hypothetical :) It has been discussed many times, about twice a year ;-) And every time it's the same answer: "ports tree is growing we need this, it would be great" I don't know if it's planned, but I thought about it because I can't sleep. Keeping ports tree consistency, keeping categories backward compatibilty for packages system during ports migration, and after that, switching to news categories for packages can be one of the possible solutions. I have made some test. and It seems to work. The main migration may eat a lot of time (specially for orphaned ports) regards, clem
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