From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 31 07:24:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA06813 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA06798; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA00776; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:24:17 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199810311524.RAA00776@gratis.grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), mike@smith.net.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who built XFree86 with Kerberos? In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sat, 31 Oct 1998 06:56:40 PST." <15699.909845800@time.cdrom.com> References: <15699.909845800@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 17:24:16 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > My suggestion would be that we either: a) go to some sort of > automation scheme which [re]builds packages on an ongoing basis and, > at release time, I just take a snapshot of the collection or b) We try > appointing a ports/packages releasemeister who's responsible for doing > in ports what I do for src each time a release rolls around. This > person could be paid since it's important to Walnut Creek CDROM > that packages and distfiles be rendered into ISO images periodically, > especially now that we have this "toolkit" CD for FreeBSD in addition > to the usual 4 CD sets. How about breaking the ports collection into pieces, or at least breaking away large chunks. I would be quite happy to donate a regular CRON job to build a nominated set of ports (eg: all the security stuff, all shells, teTeX, p5-*, m[y]sql, all four emacsen, and tcl8*/tk8*; I could easily be talked into doing a lot more.) Do that with a few other suckers^h^h^h^h^h^hvolunteers, and the load on Satoshi /et al/ should drop quite a bit for very little effort. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message