Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:06:16 +0100 (BST) From: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion for ports... Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970911205849.22246B-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk>
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Dear All,
I just did my first installation from the `ports' (yes, a british ispell),
and it was too easy. I had gone through all the trouble to download
ispell, and make completely ignored me and took it straight from the cdrom
(how rude :) In one word: Wow!
I do have a small suggestion (I haven't tried this, so it may already
exist). I noticed that make uses a `work' directory to compile in. How
about making it so that if make finds the file system read-only and is
unable to create a work directory, it defaults to (for example)
`/tmp/<portname>.work'. That way, the casual ports user can do
<place live filesys in cdrom drive>
mount /cdrom
cd /cdrom/ports/textproc/ispell
make british install
...
cd
umount /cdrom
No need to place a rather chunky ports distribution on your system. Does
the ports collection already do this?
Groetjes,
Kees Jan
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