From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 24 12:39:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8536156E8 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3D44A1C25; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38381382B; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Jaakko Salomaa Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Jaakko Salomaa wrote: > And yes, I know what ports are. But fetching and installing packages is > much faster than fetching the bigger source tarball and compiling it. And > yes, I know about the remote fetching ability of pkg_add, but it is pretty > poor in my opinion. I think we need something like this. I'll make a port > out of this if you want, or if it's my lucky day, perhaps it should even > be added to the base distribution (damn, I'm ambitious :-]). Most of what you've shown can be accomplished with 'pkg_add -r' and some enviromental variables. I don't see the huge benefit. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message