From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 31 09:50:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23750 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23744; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id JAA07445; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:49:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981031094937.A18462@Alameda.net> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:49:37 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Mark Murray , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Satoshi Asami , mike@smith.net.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who built XFree86 with Kerberos? Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <15699.909845800@time.cdrom.com> <199810311524.RAA00776@gratis.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810311524.RAA00776@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 05:24:16PM +0200 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 05:24:16PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > My suggestion would be that we either: a) go to some sort of > > automation scheme which [re]builds packages on an ongoing basis and, > > at release time, I just take a snapshot of the collection or b) We try > > appointing a ports/packages releasemeister who's responsible for doing > > in ports what I do for src each time a release rolls around. This > > person could be paid since it's important to Walnut Creek CDROM > > that packages and distfiles be rendered into ISO images periodically, > > especially now that we have this "toolkit" CD for FreeBSD in addition > > to the usual 4 CD sets. > > How about breaking the ports collection into pieces, or at least > breaking away large chunks. > > I would be quite happy to donate a regular CRON job to build a > nominated set of ports (eg: all the security stuff, all shells, > teTeX, p5-*, m[y]sql, all four emacsen, and tcl8*/tk8*; I could > easily be talked into doing a lot more.) Do that with a few > other suckers^h^h^h^h^h^hvolunteers, and the load on Satoshi /et > al/ should drop quite a bit for very little effort. I offer to be one of that suckers^h^h^h^h^h^hvolunteers. I would also think about doing a regular packages-current or so. > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message