Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:17:25 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: symlinks and virtual categories [Was: [SUGGEST] Reform eclipse and eclipse related ports] Message-ID: <20051024061725.GA465@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <20051024011005.GA99983@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr> References: <E14F38B2-B1AF-415F-AE6B-A4BE6330A83D@opensail.org> <20051015053003.GB28137@soaustin.net> <4350CE50.8080704@ebs.gr> <5739E97B-7EDC-4971-9EA5-01A44688A981@softweyr.com> <43522953.6050700@ebs.gr> <1B8112AF-8C0E-4BA0-8D1C-DA6AD529F327@softweyr.com> <20051017153024.GA23494@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <20051017212748.GD71766@isis.sigpipe.cz> <790a9fff0510171505i4010cc05yc30f67d459d1a0e4@mail.gmail.com> <20051024011005.GA99983@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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# herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr / 2005-10-24 03:10:05 +0200:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:05:18PM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> > > Hey, what about materialized virtual categories? A bunch of
> > > symlinks, and everyone's happy. Or is that too much for CVS?
> > >
> > It would probably be too much for CVS to handle, instead someone could
> > modify bsd.port.mk to create the virtual category directories and then
> > symbolicly link the ports into these categories.
>
> This is probably getting quite off-topic here but I have just coded this
> script to implement what you describe. Someone probably already
> implemented such thing but I had 10 minutes to spare between two
> simulation runs...
>
> Basically you may set PORTSDIR to a specific path (or else the script
> uses /usr/ports) and run the script. It will create the directories
> related to virtual categories and symlink ports into them.
Was the script stripped by mailman? I'd like to see it.
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