From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 29 08:23:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04759 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:23:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.michweb.net (mail.michweb.net [207.227.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA04754 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@mail.michweb.net) Received: (qmail 9191 invoked by uid 101); 29 Aug 1998 15:22:49 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:22:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Simerson To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting the Ports collection to BSDI. In-Reply-To: <19980829191055.K17530@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 28 August 1998 at 13:09:58 -0400, Matt Simerson wrote: > > > It's free software. Go for it, as long as you don't breach the > Berkeley License (which is pretty unlikely in a BSDI environment). I thought that to be the case. :) > > Is there a better way of doing this? > > I think so. I'd expect BSDI to be compatible enough that you wouldn't > need more than the occasionally correction to the ports, and that you > don't need to do much more than install the ports collection and go > for it. You'll also need some files in /usr/share/mk. This is what I was thinking but after reading a little but on the FreeBSD ports page it talked about having config files that recognized different OS's and would compile things appropriately for each one. I was wondering what it would take to get BSDI full citizenship with OpenBSD, NetBSD, and the rest of the BSD family within this ports collection. I'm hoping it's just a matter of defining a few OS variables and then testing each port to see if it's happy with BSDI. If not, then submit the necessary changes to the "port GOD" and get them added. Is this something we could work together with? I don't want to recreate the wheel and I've already got one machine with a full FreeBSD /ports tree. I'd rather not have another BSDI specific version. Matt `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Matt Simerson http://users.michweb.net/~matt MichWeb Inc. - President http://www.michweb.net The Art Farm - Technical Wizard http://www.theartfarm.com ISP/C Board of Directors http://www.ispc.org __o _-\<,_ Signed up for ISPF yet? ......(_)/ (_) If you're in the ISP industry, you should! http://www.ispf.org `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message