Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:36:42 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <20020113013642.GD5234@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <20020112212431.A27621@shale.csir.co.za> References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org> <20020112151622.H40697@hal9000.halplant.com> <20020112212431.A27621@shale.csir.co.za>
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--Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2002-01-12 21:24 +0200, Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >=20 > I began coding this functionality into the pkg_* tools some time ago, > along with some other enhancements. At the time no one was interested.= =20 > This was before portupgrade was written. The two people with the > greatest interest in the pkg_* tools are Jordan (jkh), who's backing > libh as a replacement, and Maxim (sobomax). I don't know if either of > them ever looked at my patches. >=20 > See http://people.freebsd.org/~reg/ >=20 > Since no one was interested, I lost interest. Then I lost to real > life... I've still got a working copy on my development box, and I'd be > willing to supply it on my web page. Occasionally I get time to work on > it. At the moment I'm more likely to contribute the finished product to > OpenPackages.org. If you get some cycles, please let <op-tech@openpackages.org> know of your efforts and plans. OpenPackages would have the same problem with knu's code that FreeBSD does--it has an additional language dependency. For OP that's a killer, because we don't have a package from which to build ruby until we have the OP system in the first place. Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter I got a 1.4GHz Athlon for my girlfriend. mailto:gsutter@zer0.org Good trade! http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/=20 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD --Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQE8QOSqIBUx1YRd/t0RAndFAJ48TKc3sIaRBmyV6cPFm7MKEVPyPgCdGodG EuzRhbBKt+P+18ljTfblXBw= =y/h5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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