From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 16 07:53:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18821 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18815 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA26251; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:49:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA11905; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:49:42 -0500 (CDT) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Peter Jeremy , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ?) References: <1575.892706490@time.cdrom.com> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 16 Apr 1998 09:49:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:01:30 -0700" Message-ID: <87sond254q.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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