Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:34:57 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Julien Laffaye <kimelto@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup Message-ID: <20100506023457.GA45107@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <v2ofee671621005041030j7eedf416o9e5b98dd16e72bac@mail.gmail.com> References: <i2jfee671621005031928m7672c08bk5f6f74cca2b50bad@mail.gmail.com> <u2zd41814901005040315mb53c0a8ejd9baed87454af35c@mail.gmail.com> <v2ofee671621005041030j7eedf416o9e5b98dd16e72bac@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton > <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Julien, > > > > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a > > complete package over many individual ones? > > Hi Andrew, > > If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. > your packages are built with non default options and you think its > overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a > complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb > device), which is less error prone than 150 files. > The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired > ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the > machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! Do you intend to add the "complete-package" target also or is that out of scope? -- WXS
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