From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 11:53:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2B816A4C0 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail01.stbernard.com (mail01.stbernard.com [64.154.93.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A555943FE9 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com ([192.168.4.61]) by mail01.stbernard.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:53:51 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Sten Daniel =?iso-8859-1?q?S=F8rsdal?= , "Peter Jeremy" , Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 11:53:51 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3EAD@exchange.wanglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309021153.51165.wes@softweyr.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Sep 2003 18:53:51.0479 (UTC) FILETIME=[8CE22070:01C37183] cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:53:52 -0000 On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:07, Sten Daniel S=F8rsdal 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! portinstall -r -p pkgname will build a package for pkgname and all of=20 it's dependencies. =2D-=20 "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com