From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 14 10:38:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25715 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25689 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:38:41 GMT (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04775; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:38:37 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA18590; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:38:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980414193824.31470@follo.net> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:38:24 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua, Mark Mayo Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" References: <007501bd64a4$85095f40$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> <352E61A7.570D84C@ninbox.ml.org> <19980410150331.16376@vmunix.com> <352E76F7.1B2D773D@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> <19980410160851.15337@vmunix.com> <352E7F01.1B9C39BC@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <352E7F01.1B9C39BC@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>; from Ruslan Shevchenko on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:20:25PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:20:25PM +0300, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > Free time of volunteers is slowing factor. > > We can have --FreeBSD-ports collection and bazzar-style > set of links for FreeBSD applications. Becouse attempt > to track *all* software which run on FreeBSD is in > principle impossible. > > More: I think that we *must* have the bazzar style set of > links. I think we should have infrastructure to make this easy to integrate in the 'normal format'. This should include some way of using multiple CVSup servers to upgrade the same tree. Basically, you should be able to put up a cvsup server for ports, and people add your entries to their supfile, and then your ports would just magically appear in /usr/ports. I don't think this is possible to do with cvsup collections as they work today, but I'm not certain. If it is possible, you should go ahead and set up a cvsup server (and give out the suitable entries to be able to cvsup the ports from there). There is a problem with conflicts when your ports migrate from your local tree to the generic CVS tree, of course. I'm not certain how this should be handled (one tree should probably be on override...) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message