Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 20:36:13 -0800 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.cc>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tee versionning in npkg (Re: Adding support for a global src tree serial number) Message-ID: <20020201203613.C69486@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020131171036.GA295@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>; from anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:10:36PM -0500 References: <79300.1012474898@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20020131131714.GA87780@madman.nectar.cc> <20020131171036.GA295@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>
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> The libh package system still needs some work, but when it is ready, I > will start the packaging of /usr/src. I hope the tendency will not to > package it as a single package, and I even hope to package it as > finer-grained package than current "distributions" (bin, doc, contrib, > etc). Something more like: fileutils, binutils, gnu-binutils, openssh, > openssl, etc. That's the plan. > These packages will all have independant package numbers. These will > have to be maintained, somehow, and this is the main problem of the > packaging of /usr/src: it is not made for that yet. No support is > engineered in /usr/src to allow distribution and versionning of > packages. > > Serial number is one thing, and it might be a good idea, but we could > also consider more "classic" version numbers for sub-trees, as > openssh-2001013109910000008 is not really a "user-friendly" package > name. :) I'm hoping to actually make use of such stamp-style versions, while maintaining more friendly numbers simply for the purpose of being friendly. This way we'd end up with packages named things like filetools 4.5-STABLE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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