From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Mar 30 16:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4493F37B55F; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (03-181.dial.008.popsite.net [209.69.196.181]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA61081; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:33:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 253C61A67; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:33:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:33:23 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Ade Lovett Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000330193323.B7713@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <20000330172649.C14845@lovett.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000330172649.C14845@lovett.com>; from ade@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:26:49PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:26:49PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > Gah! How on earth are we going to implement that? for i in `cat ${PKGDIR}/PLIST`; do ${LN} -sf ${OPTDIR}/${PKGNAME}/${i} ${PREFIX}/${i} done [ This is a little crude, but it's the general method that would be used. ] > Also, we've been talking about reducing the number of inodes in > the port skeletons, whereas this will (at least) double the number > of them for installed programs. This has nothing to do with the number of inodes that port skeletons take up. IIRC, however, symlinks do not take up inodes, so using a symlink system would not affect the number of inodes used by an installed port. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message