From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 2 15:58:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20058 for current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20050 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA23315; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:58:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA03971; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:59:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:59:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: Ade Lovett cc: hoek@hwcn.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Ade Lovett wrote: > Example 2: > I want to install a full FreeBSD binary system (lets say > 2.2.2-RELEASE). The actual initial install process only > installs a minimal system, but then also has an "extras" > /binary package, which builds nothing itself, but has a whole > host of dependencies for perl/binary, tcl/binary etc.. etc.. > which it then proceeds to install from ftp, cdrom, floppy etc. Basically, we have this already modulo a idealisms you threw in. :) Your example #2 is the meta-port concept that I mention. A couple new features in bsd.port.mk would be wanted, but the major groundwork is laid in the existing ports system. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk