From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 28 20:10:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03890 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:10:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03885 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:10:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA10079; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 21:09:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 21:09:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Steve Price cc: Mark Stosberg , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ rules! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Steve Price wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Brett Taylor wrote: > Maybe I mis-understood the original poster but I was assuming he meant > something that would go out to the world and figure out if what we had > in our ports tree was the latest and greatest. I thought so too, but that didn't stop me from throwing in my 2 cents. :-) > For what you (and Tim in private mail :) are talking about maybe > something like /usr/ports/sysutils/pib which was created by our very > own Mike Smith would be appropriate. I've been mucking around w/ pib since once I leave (please let me finish my thesis) the dept server will be under a non-Unix sys admin and I thought it might make things easier for her. I don't think pib does anything like this, but I could be wrong. :-) Brett ****************************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ "There is something uncanny in the noiseless rush of the cyclist, as he comes into view, passes by, and disappears." - Popular Science, 1891 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message