From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 25 9:17:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DE637B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@cisco.com) Received: from bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com [171.70.84.42]) by sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f3PGDKL18651; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3PGDJX18938; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:13:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200104251613.f3PGDJX18938@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/19/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sean Chittenden Cc: Pete French , david@bushong.net, kris@obsecurity.org, calvinng@brel.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com, sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org Subject: Re: FWIW: pkg_alert development (was: Re: pkg/port dependency too l (enclosed)) In-Reply-To: <20010425021339.B13545@rand.tgd.net> References: <20010424211314.A98683@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010425021339.B13545@rand.tgd.net> Comments: In-reply-to Sean Chittenden message dated "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 02:13:39 -0700." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1379084599P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:13:19 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_1379084599P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [picking a random message to reply to in order to make some meta-comments] If memory serves me right, Sean Chittenden wrote: > I do perl though and would rather do a make from src than an > update from a binary. [checking the docs to make sure I'm not crazy > before stirring up another wild goose chase...] Alright, looks safe. > > Thoughts to a -s flag to build from source? -sc Why don't you folks move this to -ports? There's a lot of people there who have thought about these issues, and they can at least help you avoid re-making past mistakes. (Also look at the list archives, this issue gets re-hashed every few months.) I had the approach of incorporating this into bsd.port.mk. Anyone who wants to see what I've got and is interested in improving it, please send me a note off-list. I use it routinely, but it has its shortcomings, such as not dealing with build-time flags. Also, you might want to talk to the OpenPackages people to see what they're doing. Those of you actually working on this problem can probably save a lot of time and grief by looking at what others have tried to do in the past... Cheers, Bruce. PS. I can be dropped from this discussion; unfortunately I won't have time to participate except to make a few meta-comments every now and then. :-( --==_Exmh_1379084599P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE65vef2MoxcVugUsMRAueQAKDvVPpZgIxOuiBQg1KLDNX6xPoOaACgu2wr lFwiC0lit+UYatnH/3J5nn4= =8t0Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1379084599P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message