Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 04:08:23 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports hackers wanted! Message-ID: <17669.797425703@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Apr 95 03:07:18 PDT." <199504091007.DAA05993@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> (1) Make pkg_create or pkg_add able to "register" a package from the > ports directory by looking into pkg/PLIST. We can then call this > from the "install" rule in bsd.port.mk so that the user can > pkg_delete it later. I'll do this. It's easy. > (2) Add some way to include the dependency information (usually > LIB_DEPENDS, maybe EXEC_DEPENDS too but this one is harder 'cause > it may be required only for compilation) into the package so that > pkg_add will check for the existences and print out messages > advising users to fetch additional packages. This would be a > great enhancement over the current "ld.so: libfoo not found" > solution. :) I won't do this. It's not easy.. :-) Actually, I might do this. I can see a hack.. Maybe not a big one.. Let me get back to you on this! :-) > There's already someone working on this (tkpkg). I also need to take > a look at pkg_manage. Jordan claims to have a better version. :) tkpkg needs to be adopted and improved. It's currently ownerless, AFAIK! I don't have a better version of pkg_manage YET, I've only looked at pre-releases. Marc van Kempen is working on that and hopes to have something committed soon - it's his baby, not mine! :)
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