Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 22:12:29 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971206220227.20840C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199712061723.KAA18629@harmony.village.org>
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[phk sent a similar mail, but it had a much too long cc: list I hope everyone relevant sees it anyway] On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199712060810.AAA20945@tao.thought.org> Gary Kline writes: > : If there are fewer than 10 gotchas, a merger still makes > : sense to me. If OpenBSD is too different from FreeBSD, > : NetBSD shouldn't be. > > shouldn't be a big deal. however, in practice it turns out to be a > big deal. there are at least 100 gotchas. everything from some ports Some of which should be corrected anyway. > assuming i386, to missing libraries, to differences in how man pages The target processor should be encoded somewehere, assuming something about it is no good . Missing libraries? They just need #ifdefs around the depenency lines (+ some {Open, Net}BSD specific ports). Installing man pages should be done using a script lie install-man (which can be plaform specific so it always get's done right). I haven't seen the list, but I would bet that half of them are of this type. > are stored, to ... well you get the idea. there is more hair here > than meets the eye. > Sure. Having a unified ports collection is that big a task that it certainly requires co-operation from all the parties. The conversion would have to be done port at a time anyways. > Warner > Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.
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