Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 16:08:43 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: gpalmer@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/gnu Message-ID: <199605240638.QAA13532@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9605232233.AA18819@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at May 23, 96 11:33:01 pm
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Jean-Marc Zucconi stands accused of saying:
>
>> That would mean running up against the one flaw of the current ports
>> system. I get my source code updates by CTM, and I am VERY happy with
>> the fact that I just go to /usr/src and do what I want. I don't want
>> to have to think ``do I have that tarball available, and if not, how
>> bad is network congestion right now''.
This could be handled a number of ways.
- put the tarball somewhere other than /usr/ports. It's not going to
change very often. Still means you need space for both the tarball and
the unpacked version. Perhaps we could have a 'lite' tarball with all
the irrelevant stuff diked out, but that would be work.
- distribute the port frame unpacked, ie. at the 'make configure' state.
This would mean no extracting, no tarball, configuring or patching
unless you blew away the .configure_done file. From the point of view
of the average 'worlder' this would make for the least impact.
When a new GCC was brought in, it would have a new directory name under
work/, so the old one could just be thrown out/attic-ed, so no more
move/rename hassles.
- unbundle the compiler and all the other GNU tools 8)
Obviously, I think the second proposal has merit; it might require a
hack to bsd.port.mk to avoid requiring the tarball...
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