Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:38:22 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <p06002049bd11acd7e913@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> <p06002039bd11631ca135@[10.0.1.3]> <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com>
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At 8:25 AM -0500 2004-07-07, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> You have to get it into binary first. EZM3 is not available on many
> non-FreeBSD, non-Intel platforms. Although it's used *primarily* by the
> FreeBSD project, it seems like there would be enough of a demand for such a
> thing that other a portable version would be readily adopted by other
> projects.
Right, but does this prohibit the creation of binary-only cvsup
packages which don't rely on the ezm3 stuff once it's built? Then
people could do a pkg_add for that binary package, and not have to
build it from source....
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