Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:38:45 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Horecki <morr+lists@morr.pl> Cc: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <20111214223845.GC2643@azathoth.lan> In-Reply-To: <7j1us7nmi4.fsf@bespin.stars> References: <4EE8344C.2070509@freebsd.org> <201112141300.pBED08ov002173@fire.js.berklix.net> <CADGWnjUXMYUs4F=PhO6=XcvOEpvGBe%2B0%2BfHne0sNZtHkNFOXTw@mail.gmail.com> <D4B4AA2F-9447-41B6-A683-81786E232C45@foolishgames.com> <7j1us7nmi4.fsf@bespin.stars>
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--RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Daniel Horecki wrote: > Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> writes: >=20 > > There is also mirports from MirBSD that is supported on MirBSD, Midnig= htBSD, and Mac OS X. They also got a pkgsrc port going recently. The proble= m is that projects have specific needs that other systems don't have. FreeB= SD ports are by far the largest and very fast to build. Pkgsrc comes out qu= arterly so it takes a long time to get patches in or updates as Dragonfly g= oes through. With MidnightBSD, we wanted all ports to go through fake insta= ll so our packages would work all the time and we could write package tools= customized for the ports tree.=20 > > > > Every BSD has different needs and different users.=20 > > >=20 > You can use pkgsrc-current, which is updated all the time. > It also supports installation to fake DESTDIR, from where binary packages > are made and then installed. It is useful, if you are building as unprivi= leged user. > And pkgsrc already supports FreeBSD. >=20 What you are pointing here: fake DESTDIR, binary packages and building as unpriviledged, are fairly easy to add to FreeBSD, I'm working on all this. it is not complicated, but it takes a lot of time, no need to go elsewhere = to get those features, the ports tree is almost able to handle it. regards, Bapt --RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7pJXUACgkQ8kTtMUmk6Ezu3QCgwWwjmUblVA0QNvcuA20GsOTX BVQAoLw8O8zISMHp6Z18AAz2myo99HYc =aqYm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RIYY1s2vRbPFwWeW--
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