Date: 03 May 2000 04:48:13 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports projects Message-ID: <vqck8hb97nm.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Tue, 2 May 2000 16:44:24 -0700 (PDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005021629410.44965-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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* From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> * This has long been on my wishlist: what I envision is a once-off * "sorting" process which tests bandwidths to all MASTER_SITEs in a * nominated list of ports and maintains a database sorted by increasing * bandwidth to the destination. This could be regenerated at will by a * bsd.port.mk target. Yes, that will probably work, but it's also a lot of work to do! * > @ Better handling of restrictions (what if depended port is * > illegal, is interactive, etc.) during package build (status: none) * * OpenBSD have taken steps in this direction by defining a set of variables * which specify whether a given action is permitted (mirroring, putting on * CDROM, building package, etc) I'm talking about how to untangle the mess when you have a port that depends on something in a different redistribution class. Adding new classes is not going to help. :) * OpenBSD have also done a sweep for port license information, which is * something we've neglected. Yes! I even have a mail from jdp about this I got a while ago, which got buried somewhere in my mailbox in the pre-release shuffle.... * Another item on my wishlist is for ports to respect CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/CC/CXX * for controlling the build. There are far too many ports which don't * respect all of these though, so I don't think a bento warning would be * effective. Honestly, I don't really mind if a port doesn't respect some of the above as long as it doesn't use "-g" or "-O0" or something equally inane as their compilation option. If the user wants to debug the port, they have to go into the source directory anyway. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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