Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 01:22:54 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <20070513042254.GC1017@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> In-Reply-To: <4643E10A.5030104@u.washington.edu> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <4643E10A.5030104@u.washington.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thursday, 10 May 2007 at 20:20:42 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > David Naylor wrote: > >Dear Jordan > > > >Recently I stumbled across a document you wrote in 2001, entitled "FreeBSD > >installation and package tools, past, present and future". I find FreeBSD > >appealing and I would like to contribute it its success, and as your > >article describes, the installation and packaging system is lacking. > >Since the installation system is being tackled under a SoC project I am > >hoping to give the packaging system a go. > > > >I was hoping you could help me with an update about the situation with > >pkg. I have searched the FreeBSD mailing lists and have found little > >information on the package system. Once I have a (much more) complete > >understanding of the packaging system (and providing there is work to be > >done) I would like to write up a proposal to solve the problems, and > >perhaps provide some innovating new capabilities. > > > >After that I will gladly contribute what I can to this (possible) project > >and hopefully further and improve FreeBSD. Any assistance or information > >you can give I will be greatly appreciate. > > > >I look forward to your reply. > > > >David > > Yipes. The name of the game is to get something working in the base > system, instead of dragging in multiple 3rd party packages, with > licensing schemes that may not be aligned with the BSD license. > > SQL's great, SQL's wonderful for db use, but the problem is that > supporting it from my POV would cause a lot more grief and waiting than > having me wait a few months to get a BDB compatible scheme out the door. > I'm a little out of practice, however, perhaps the routines that manipulate the ports meta-data could be sufficiently agnostic about how the data is being manipulated that it would facilitate experimentation with different back-ends at a later time. Just a thought and perhaps I'm way off. Duane > If only Oracle didn't make BDB 3.x non-BSD license friendly though.. > that would be nice.. > > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20070513042254.GC1017>