From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 3 17:50:03 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA21546 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:50:03 -0700 Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.64.181]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA21534 ; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:50:01 -0700 Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA00769; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:49:54 -0700 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 17:49:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199506040049.RAA00769@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com CC: ports@freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: <199506040009.RAA18431@freefall.cdrom.com> (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: Change in the package hierarchy organization requested From: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi Asami) Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * I ran into an interesting problem putting the packages hierarchy on CDROM: * RockRidge definitely _does not like_ the `.packages' directory that * everything lands in - it doesn't complain but the resulting CD is bogus * with packages pointing nowhere. That's an interesting problem...that RockRidge thing (I assume it's a CDROM burner?) does the same to all the directory names that start with ``.''? If so, I think you need to get that fixed, regardless of the package situation.... :< * Why not collapse this one level and just install all packages straight * into all, sylinking into that location? Right now, we just end up * wasting all those symlinks in the all directory! The idea was to put the packages in a hidden directory, or at least something that looks significantly different from the others so that users can easily distinguish the directories that are safe to "get