Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:09:58 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 dependency and sysinstall Message-ID: <1140.906523798@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:49:26 PDT." <199809221849.LAA08592@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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> As I said before, can you make XFree86 tarballs install a proper entry > in /var/db/pkg/XFree86-3.3.2? Since pkg_add now aborts with an error > when a @pkgdep line doesn't exist, this has been upgraded from "nice" > to "somewhat important". :) Yeah, erm. Yuck... :-) I appreciate the desire for this, but the reason I also haven't done this yet stems from the fact that turning an arbitrary tarball into a "package" requires that you contrive a fair amount of data. Sure, the bulk of the PLIST is just a `tar tf ..' away, but then there's the description information and the dependency list and all the other metainfo which makes a package a lot more than just a tar file. I'm torn between some shell script which automagically gets run by sysinstall after extracting an X distribution tarball (yay, yet another special-case) or just making the X tarballs packages in the first place, taking what the XFree86 project gives us and then doing an extra conversion step. For that matter, we could also build the packages ourselves from the x11/XFree86 port - wouldn't that be just nifty (and a good deal less "astonishing" than the alternatives). But jmz is the MAINTAINER of that port, you see, so if I push that suggestion really hard you'll only come back and accuse me of trying to get off the hook. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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