From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 13:40:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D4916A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:40:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDA543D49 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i67DeRbB089578; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:40:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> <200407070825.18046.kirk@strauser.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:38:22 +0200 To: Kirk Strauser From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:40:32 -0000 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.... -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.