From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 15 19:42:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08469 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:42:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from euthyphro.uchicago.edu (euthyphro.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00808 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) Received: from phaedrus.uchicago.edu (phaedrus [128.135.21.10]) by euthyphro.uchicago.edu (8.8.6/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA23840; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:14:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by phaedrus.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA06359; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 21:14:51 -0500 (CDT) To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ?) References: <199804152224.IAA03296@gsms01.alcatel.com.au> From: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 15 Apr 1998 21:14:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Peter Jeremy's message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:24:31 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: <87af9mjyw4.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.3/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Jeremy writes: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 19:30:15 +0200 (CEST), Marino Ladavac wrote: > >I could take a look at it if you don't mind SystemV packaging style. > Some disadvantages of the SysV package style (or at least Sun's > implementation thereof): > > If we're thinking about replacing the existing package management > tools, we'd be better off defining exactly what we want the tools > to do, before porting the package management tools from another OS. Umm... why not use RPM? The tools are all freely available... it's been around for a while... whatever gui's and crap come from linux will work just fine... *it's already a freebsd port*... So the only work involved would be adding "make rpm" to bsd.ports.mk. Or is this a GPL issue? -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message