Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:49:37 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, mike@smith.net.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who built XFree86 with Kerberos? Message-ID: <19981031094937.A18462@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <199810311524.RAA00776@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 05:24:16PM %2B0200 References: <15699.909845800@time.cdrom.com> <199810311524.RAA00776@gratis.grondar.za>
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On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 05:24:16PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > My suggestion would be that we either: a) go to some sort of > > automation scheme which [re]builds packages on an ongoing basis and, > > at release time, I just take a snapshot of the collection or b) We try > > appointing a ports/packages releasemeister who's responsible for doing > > in ports what I do for src each time a release rolls around. This > > person could be paid since it's important to Walnut Creek CDROM > > that packages and distfiles be rendered into ISO images periodically, > > especially now that we have this "toolkit" CD for FreeBSD in addition > > to the usual 4 CD sets. > > How about breaking the ports collection into pieces, or at least > breaking away large chunks. > > I would be quite happy to donate a regular CRON job to build a > nominated set of ports (eg: all the security stuff, all shells, > teTeX, p5-*, m[y]sql, all four emacsen, and tcl8*/tk8*; I could > easily be talked into doing a lot more.) Do that with a few > other suckers^h^h^h^h^h^hvolunteers, and the load on Satoshi /et > al/ should drop quite a bit for very little effort. I offer to be one of that suckers^h^h^h^h^h^hvolunteers. I would also think about doing a regular packages-current or so. > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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