From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 18 13:43:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from radon.gryphonsoft.com (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C81537B424 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by radon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18A551B40; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:39:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:39:05 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porteasy Message-ID: <20000918153904.G35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <86og1ld4u6.fsf@md5.follo.net> <20000918142919.D35550@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:24:08PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:24:08PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Short version: it builds ports. > > Long version: it looks up the specified ports in the index file, > builds a dependency list, optionally updates the port tree using CVS, > and then, depending on command-line options, does a variety of things > to the ports you specified (shows the comment file; fetches all > distfiles; installs the port; builds packages for the port and its > dependencies) Sounds neat. Seems like this sort of thing should be put under ports/Tools/scripts, not made into a port. > Is 20 kB OK? Fine with me. > No, but it means I have to add dependencies on the fly, then go back > and start over until the dependency graph stabilizes. It would be a > lot simpler to have a complete dependency graph from the start. Guess you can't have everything. Ports suck at complicated dependencies. Perhaps that will be resolved in the future. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message