Date: 16 Apr 1998 09:49:41 -0500 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Peter Jeremy <Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ?) Message-ID: <87sond254q.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:01:30 -0700" References: <1575.892706490@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > > 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. :) No, of course not... ;-) However, if one were to simplistically divide the process up into two steps: 1. make a new package format 2. make ports create that format. Then rpm's would get you 1 for free. That's all that I meant. This work of "make rpm" or "make xxx" will have to be done no matter what, no? -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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