From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 08:57:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8C0216A41F; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:57:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750C343D70; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:57:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7B6999A11; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:57:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ide6YMVWOkpZ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:57:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-50635cb6.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.92.182]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49097999839; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:57:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <448937F5.4070607@t-hosting.hu> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:57:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, emulators@FreeBSD.org Subject: The future of Gentoo ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:57:56 -0000 Hello Alexander, I've been thinking of your recommendation about renaming these ports and installing them under another prefix. I agree that these are rather complete distributions than just linux_base ports. It would be nice to indicate that somehow, but I'd prefer keeping the opportunity to install them into ${LINUXBASE} as I find them very useful as a linux_base as well. For an example, we can get everything from gentoo portage. I know we have a lot of ports, but portage may contain something that ports doesn't and vica versa. So, we are able to use portages, but chrooting to the environment is not necessary, we can jsut start something from the host system that are installed in the gentoo environment, as if it were a linux-* port from our ports collection. My idea is to repocopy and rename these ports like: emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage1 -> emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage1 This introduces a new group of ports (linux_dist*) that are complete linux environment for cross-development, etc. At the same time a WITH_LINUXBASE macro should be added for installing them into ${LINUXBASE} and this requires a conditional CONFLICTS with another linux_base ports. If this has been accomplished, I also want to add then three metaports as emulators/linux_base-gentoo-stage[123] for the old functionality, this would install the ports with WITH_LINUXBASE set, but these metaports can be set DEPRECATED without an EXPIRATION_DATE to just note that the use of these are discouraged. Ideas and opinions from the lists are welcome! Cheers, Gabor Kovesdan