From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 31 5:46:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4836F14E05; Mon, 31 May 1999 05:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 31 May 1999 14:48:59 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179630@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Taavi Talvik' , Ladavac Marino Cc: 'Nick Hibma' , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: a two-level port system? (fwd) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:43:49 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Taavi Talvik [SMTP:taavi@uninet.ee] > Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 2:38 PM > To: Ladavac Marino > Cc: 'Nick Hibma'; freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG; > freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: a two-level port system? (fwd) > > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Ladavac Marino wrote: > > Disadvantage: > > With one big file it is next to impossible to build version 1.1.1 of > one > port and 1.1.2 of another. > > With current model i can check out specific branch for > all files/ports separately. > [ML] You have a point there :) Of course, you could check out the 1.1.1 version of the big file, build your port, and then the 1.1.2 version of the big file, build the other one, but this would be probably rather slow--some testing will be needed. Another possibility is one file per port, thus keeping the stuff in more manageable chunks. For this I don't even have to write anything--shar will do (something better than shar, something that keeps the file entries alphabetized and thus guarantees minimal diffs would be good, though). I hope we all agree that a reduction in file/directory count is desirable. [ML] /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message