Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 00:03:41 -0700 From: Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: old ports/packages Message-ID: <20160504070341.GV740@mail0.byshenk.net> In-Reply-To: <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org> References: <03cc4012-026e-c007-09e1-ee45524f1b95@elischer.org> <B32DD056A6281C191CD35AA2@ogg.in.absolight.net> <c528a76d-5b94-01a3-f27e-7d174faf544e@freebsd.org> <1FAFDF989841D03604BB448B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <7b8d22c6-1fed-d517-9f89-693b88dfc358@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 01:44:29PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 3/05/2016 2:31 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > +--On 3 mai 2016 12:02:13 +0800 Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > | On 2/05/2016 8:39 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > |> There is a tag, https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL/ > > |> that gives you the last version to support pkg_install. Anything after > > |> that will not work with it. At all. > > | I'm not looking to produce old packages of the ports tree.. I know the > > | ports crew would hate me for that. > > | > > | What I object to is not having the tools needed to generate MY OWN > > | PACKAGES in ports. > > You can generate your own packages from the ports tree, just not with > > pkg_install, it was deprecated three or four years ago, and remove 19 > > months ago. > Of course I can create NEW packages.. I want to generate OLD style > packages.. > > what's so hard to understand about that? if a company has old > packages build into it's infrastructure.... > > and has to create old style packages of "proprietary stuff" to send > out to appliances out in the field then you are breaking them. I'm not a developer, so anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in any of this, but... Julian, you -can- create old-style packages (eg: of proprietary internal software); you just have to do it based on an old-style ports tree (which you can checkout, if you need it, as noted above). What you cannot do is create old-style packages from a new ports tree. This is because the ports infrastructure has been changing since pkg_install was deprecated, and pkg_install simply will not work with the current ports tree (and, as I understand it, cannot practically be modified in order to work with it). But again, you -can- still build old-style packages if that is required: just check out a ports tree that works with old-style packages and use that to package your "proprietary stuff". -- greg byshenk - gbyshenk@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL
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