From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 31 8:39:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8FB14F3C; Mon, 31 May 1999 08:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA23885; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:08:56 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199905311538.BAA23885@gizmo.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: a two-level port system? To: newton@internode.com.au (Mark Newton) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:08:56 -1430 (CST) Cc: akm@mail.theinternet.com.au, eivind@FreeBSD.ORG, abial@webgiro.com, taavi@uninet.ee, kaj@raditex.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905311534.BAA23855@gizmo.internode.com.au> from "Mark Newton" at Jun 1, 99 01:04:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Newton wrote: > /usr/ports/buildenv would contain everything that the non-special-case > /usr/ports directories currently contain, except the Makefiles. They'd > continue to live in their present location. I thought of another advantage of this approach: You can upgrade existing ports on your system (but not add new ones) by doing an "rm -rf /usr/ports/buildenv". Next time you build a port the latest version of the build environment, supplementary makefiles, patches, distfile locations, etc can be sucked over from ftp.freebsd.org - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message