Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:44:02 +0200 From: Igor Pokrovsky <igor.pokrovsky@cnrm.meteo.fr> To: Sten Daniel S?rsdal <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <20030902114401.GA277@exmatis1.cnrm.meteo.fr> In-Reply-To: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net> References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Sten Daniel S?rsdal wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: > > >Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" > > >ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty > > >useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" > > >can be installed at once. > > > > Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on > > what FreeBSD does now? If I try to install package X, it will > > automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their > > dependencies. > > > > That would ease the installation of port X on Y number of machines. > Same libraries, same everything, precompiled. > Otherwise one needs to manually track dependencies (not a terribly > difficult job) and make those as packages, and keep doing this until > all dependencies are as packages (in my case, i have several > light-weight servers/routers that have no gcc/make capabilities). > > If anyone knows of a program/script that will do this for me, please speak up! I guess you can easily build packages recursively with portupgrade. And no need to track dependencies manually. -ip -- You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
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