Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:10:11 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports and PBIs Message-ID: <4BC10553.1080705@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <r2o11167f521004101036w9e2daa7coc837459203aa88b@mail.gmail.com> References: <49684.1270905510@pcbsd.org> <r2o11167f521004101036w9e2daa7coc837459203aa88b@mail.gmail.com>
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Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > I do have a question, assuming PBI's were merged officially into the > FreeBSD ports tree, > say I had PostgreSQL Server installed, via PBI. then I wanted to tweak > a setting so I: > > cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/ && make deinstall clean > > would the PBI at this point be removed? or no because it is self contained? Basically, I believe the proposal here is to add: * make pbi to the ports build system to create a PBI from a port and possibly add * make installpbi * make deinstallpbi to install/deinstall just the resulting PBI. In particular, I don't think anyone is suggesting removing or changing any existing ports/package capability. People who are happy with the existing ports/package system could continue using it exactly as-is. This would imply that you might build Postgres and install it both as a port/package and simultaneously as a PBI. I'm not sure what that would mean, though. The big question, of course: what impact would the addition of "make pbi" have on existing port/package support efforts? Is this creating extra work for existing maintainers? Should it be optional (enabled per-port) or somehow default? I suspect the next step is for someone to put forward a proposed implementation of "make pbi" so those interested can start trying it out and see what the impacts are. (If only the GSoC proposal deadline hadn't already passed. ;-) Tim
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