From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 14 22:38:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 266CF106568A for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42758FC3C; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pBEMcnPM015436; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:49 GMT (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bapt@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id pBEMcmNY015435; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:48 GMT (envelope-from bapt@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: bapt set sender to bapt@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:38:45 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin To: Daniel Horecki Message-ID: <20111214223845.GC2643@azathoth.lan> References: <4EE8344C.2070509@freebsd.org> <201112141300.pBED08ov002173@fire.js.berklix.net> <7j1us7nmi4.fsf@bespin.stars> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7j1us7nmi4.fsf@bespin.stars> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Lucas Holt , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" , "C. P. Ghost" , "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:38:50 -0000 --RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Daniel Horecki wrote: > Lucas Holt writes: >=20 > > There is also mirports from MirBSD that is supported on MirBSD, Midnig= htBSD, and Mac OS X. They also got a pkgsrc port going recently. The proble= m is that projects have specific needs that other systems don't have. FreeB= SD ports are by far the largest and very fast to build. Pkgsrc comes out qu= arterly so it takes a long time to get patches in or updates as Dragonfly g= oes through. With MidnightBSD, we wanted all ports to go through fake insta= ll so our packages would work all the time and we could write package tools= customized for the ports tree.=20 > > > > Every BSD has different needs and different users.=20 > > >=20 > You can use pkgsrc-current, which is updated all the time. > It also supports installation to fake DESTDIR, from where binary packages > are made and then installed. It is useful, if you are building as unprivi= leged user. > And pkgsrc already supports FreeBSD. >=20 What you are pointing here: fake DESTDIR, binary packages and building as unpriviledged, are fairly easy to add to FreeBSD, I'm working on all this. it is not complicated, but it takes a lot of time, no need to go elsewhere = to get those features, the ports tree is almost able to handle it. regards, Bapt --RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7pJXUACgkQ8kTtMUmk6Ezu3QCgwWwjmUblVA0QNvcuA20GsOTX BVQAoLw8O8zISMHp6Z18AAz2myo99HYc =aqYm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW--