From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Mar 31 1:53:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from firewall1.lehman.com (firewall.Lehman.COM [192.147.65.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2591554E; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 01:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nclayton@lehman.com) Received: from relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com by firewall1.lehman.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id EAA29611; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:48:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from lonmailhost.lehman.com by relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id EAA19720; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 04:48:11 -0500 (EST) Received: by lonmailhost.lehman.com (SMI-8.6/Lehman Bros. V1.5) id KAA06106; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:48:10 +0100 Message-ID: <19990331104809.F14492@lehman.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:48:09 +0100 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami , nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Stow, and the ports system? References: <19990330085646.T14492@lehman.com> <19990330113617.A22325@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903302217.OAA41059@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199903302217.OAA41059@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:17:47PM -0800 Organization: Lehman Brothers Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:17:47PM -0800, Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: Neil Blakey-Milner > * Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG > * > * On Tue 1999-03-30 (08:56), nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > * > Now, obviously I could just do this myself (and probably will when my > * > 3.1 box finishes rebuilding itself). But would anyone be interested in > * > having this functionality folded back into the ports system as an option? > > As an option? Heck, I'd like to see it as the default. :) OK. I tried playing with it briefly last night, but ran in to all sorts of problems (some of which are doubtless to do with the fact that my box is in a state of disarray at the moment). In particular it seems to violently object to the fact that /usr/local/ on my system is a symlink to /local/1/usr.local. I'll get some more time next week. In the mean time I note that it's written in Perl 4. I could well be better off dusting down some of my own scripts (Perl 5) and properly documenting them instead. I need to buy a laptop. . . N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message