From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 21 9:35:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B8A14FA4 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA75473 for ports@freebsd.org; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:34:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:34:27 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Should every package also have a port? Message-ID: <19990821173427.A73931@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -ports, [ Not on this list, please cc: replies to me ] Are there any rules that say that if something is available as a package then it should also be available as a port? The FreeBSD Documentation (FAQ, Handbook, et al) will shortly be available as FreeBSD packages, suitable for pkg_add(1). I'm wondering whether it's worthwhile creating a port skeleton for each one of these packages, where % cd /usr/ports/fdp/faq [1] % make "FORMATS=html html-split" LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1 install would just run the equivalent of % pkg_add ftp://.../faq-en_US.ISO_8859-1-html.tgz % pkg_add ftp://.../faq-en_US.ISO_8859-1-html-split.tgz and where "make package" would be a no-op. Also, there could be no checksum file, because the documentation packages would be rebuilt daily (or, at the very least, weekly). Personally, I don't think this is worth the hassle. But I'm not a ports guy, so I figure the final call is in your hands. Thoughts? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message