Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:16:06 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, abial@webgiro.com, taavi@uninet.ee, kaj@raditex.se, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a two-level port system? Message-ID: <19990531151606.B13442@mad> In-Reply-To: <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au>; from Andrew Kenneth Milton on Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM %2B1000 References: <19990531155305.A55875@bitbox.follo.net> <199905311521.BAA92145@mail.theinternet.com.au>
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On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:21:46AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > > How about optionally tarring the 'files' and 'patches' subdirs > (into seperate tarfiles or as one tarfile) to be extracted when the port > is needed. This would make cvsupping ports 'harder' I would imagine, Has anyone involved in this discussion tried using the portcheckout script? It's in devel/portcheckout. It checkouts the current version of a port and its dependencies on demand. At one time, I gave wosch patches to optionally use ftp. Due to changes on wcarchive, I'm not sure those work anymore. Actually, I suspect the whole thing is suffering from a little bitrot, but you should at least have a look... -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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