Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:01:31 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Removing the dependency on unzip - use bsdtar Message-ID: <20060123160130.GA39546@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060123140445.GW79989@hoeg.nl> References: <20060122231840.GU79989@hoeg.nl> <20060123002233.GA66371@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060123140445.GW79989@hoeg.nl>
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--X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:04:45PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > I wonder whether it's really worthwhile given the effort. >=20 > Well, it will take some time to fix all those ports, but I'm willing to > fix as much ports as possible. One of my classmates would like to help > me with that, because he wants to learn more about the ports tree's > internals anyway, so effort isn't a real big issue. >=20 > We just want to be sure that our effort won't get trashed ;-) Can you develop a prototype patch that DTRT on all supported versions (e.g. 4.x where you can't use bsdtar, or at least you have to use the port?), and converts a representative sample of ports so that we can see the impact? Kris --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD1P3aWry0BWjoQKURAhRxAKC42KEwzqPZdRc4jAjsN2a897eZHACgt251 lISnqW8JnZ6KxfS6NJ4YuaM= =XLzL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--
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