| From: | Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:00:11 +0200 |
Lately David Rhodus told: > I'm not sure that's exactly the right approach to take. The FreeBSD > ports tree is a very dynamic item, as there is a large number of > people tracking the changes of the packages. Along with location > changes of the packages on the internet is a very, very time consuming > process. We will need to overlay the FreeBSD ports system with our > own, at least until interest grows. Without doing that the tree will > become quickly stale. With a few hours one could develop a simple set > of shell scripts to harvest this information from the Makefile and > distinfo files. > Hence plugging the file location and any other BSD specifics from the > files dir that will be need to build the package into our > ports/packaging system. I definitvely agree. If nobody issues this first, I'll take a look at this at the mid of next week. cheers simon -- /"\ http://corecode.ath.cx/#donate \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News
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