From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 23:03:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA18786 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA18735 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:03:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01578; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ?) In-reply-to: Your message of "15 Apr 1998 21:14:51 CDT." <87af9mjyw4.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:01:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1575.892706490@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > will work just fine... *it's already a freebsd port*... So the only > work involved would be adding "make rpm" to bsd.ports.mk. I like the way that rolls so easily off his tongue. :-) Have you actually looked at what it would take to create a "make rpm" target that would work with even a reasonable majority of our ports? Please, go look. Then come back and tell us again how easy a drop-in solution RPMs are. :) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message