Re: Time for newvers

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 02:43 PM, Richard Coleman wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     We can't do this quite yet, there are too many dependancies on the
> >     name being FreeBSD.
> >     Maybe it is time to dup the ports tree from FreeBSD into our own 
> > CVS,
> >     but I'd rather not think about it until the base source tree is 
> > 'fixed'
> >     to deal with the name change.
>
> Once they lock down the FreeBSD ports tree for 4.9, that may be a good 
> time to import into DragonFly.  Either that or wait for a similar lock 
> down for 5.2.

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.

-DR