Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:04:21 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/ElectricFence Makefile ports/lang/Sather Makefile ports/print/a2ps43-letter Makefile ports/textproc/agrep Makefile ports/news/aub Makefile ports/shells/bash1 Makefile ports/lang/bc-gcc Makefile ports/print/bibcard Makefile ... Message-ID: <864sa16kai.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "20 Mar 2000 10:20:45 -0800" <vqcu2i1ec5e.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <200003200237.SAA95508@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqchfe2f0vg.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000320084714.A96452@dragon.nuxi.com> <vqcu2i1ec5e.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Hi,
At 20 Mar 2000 10:20:45 -0800,
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> Knu-san, any progress on this? (You said you'll look into NetBSD's
> changes.) From my customary glance, they don't seem to have anything
> like this, but they just removed the "version required" comment (in
> fact, they removed the entire header section other than $NetBSD$).
Yes, their pkgsrc seems changing so fast I've been completely
convinced that I have to have a NetBSD environment on my own box to
track pkgsrc's changes. However just my luck, I've been unable to do
it only because NetBSD didn't support my hardware.
But finally, I've successfully got one on VMware (!) last weekend.
So I guess I'll be able to resume the work. Sorry for the delay.
<Digression>
VMware seems as useful as you can hack NetBSD, play with Linux, or
shatter darn Windows into pieces _in a window_ on your FreeBSD
desktop. Why, my hacking time for joy and working time for living are
going to be totally seamless! (But wait... :)
</Digression>
> Their "update" support seems interesting, and with a new VERSION
> variable, and some modifications to pkg_* tools, we might be able to
> do a more seamless upgrade (emacs-20.5a -> emacs-20.6, etc.).
As you are the ports master, you might want to contact Hubert Feyrer
<feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> who is the pkgsrc leader and knows
everything about NetBSD's pkgsrc updates.
Once he suggested that the NetBSD pkgsrc team and the FreeBSD ports
team should join hands and the easiest way to merge would be to base
NetBSD's pkg_* tools and bsd.pkg.mk, then make FreeBSD's chages after
NetBSD imported FreeBSD's stuff (around early in 1997) over them.
That's what I've been thinking too.
Also, I'd mention that NetBSD's pkgsrc supports not only NetBSD but
also Linux, Solaris, etc. Why not just add support for FreeBSD, one
of the easiest systems to port? :)
By the way, it's almost time to move to the ports list, isn't it?
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Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( <knu@idaemons.org>
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