Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:08:03 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained?? Message-ID: <20041025190803.GR54582@hex.databits.net> In-Reply-To: <1098730448.672.8.camel@moonlight> References: <1098641975.705.10.camel@moonlight> <20041025083705.GA16273@anembo.nu.org> <20041025173456.GA95850@thought.org> <20041025184746.GC95850@thought.org> <1098730448.672.8.camel@moonlight>
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--Zl+NncWK+U5aSfTo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would appreciate a little more trimming. It's hard to read when I have to scroll through 100 lines of quotes of emails I've already read. On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:54:09PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > Actually the pkgsrc system supports FreeBSD. True, but NetBSD's methods are different from FreeBSD's. > yes. The pkgsrc system was originally a port from FreeBSDs ports system > to NetBSD, as such it works very similar to it. Including automatically > installing dependencies. It has some tradeoffs with automatic upgrading > (no portupgrade tool yet). [...] > > ...EVen if your "bsdports.org" is the best idea of the century > > it's still going to take volunteers--that's what bites. > > (*sigh*) >=20 > yeah. This is why I am collecting other ideas first. You might want to check history first -- I worked with a few others for about a year on OpenPackages.org, back in 2001. The venture ultimately failed in its intent to create a uniform package management system. Admittedly we probably got a bit too idealistic. But the logistics of converting an existing userbase =66rom one system to another wholesale are staggering. If you can figure out how to do just that part, I would be very interested in your ideas. Anyway, check history. There's LOTS of discussion about this. Regards, --=20 wca --Zl+NncWK+U5aSfTo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBfU8SF47idPgWcsURAjYHAJ9x1tvzMHWiXucxhFTVipAYW9g98QCeOKmF Jgkzapdrfkf9odgE5djqI3I= =CwRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Zl+NncWK+U5aSfTo--
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