Date: Tue, 17 Oct 95 13:18:34 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pending crisis in packages/All/... Message-ID: <199510172018.NAA04392@netcom22.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 95 12:57:47 PDT." <13668.813959867@time.cdrom.com>
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> Uh. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how this is any
> different than what we have now.
Instead of All/, networking/, multimedia/ etc. you have
All/
Multimedia/
Sound/
Video/
Networking/
www/
ipx/
Editors/
....
and so on. There are no symlinks. All package names are unique
withing the All/ tree -- the dir. hierarchy is merely for logical
grouping (for humans). I don't know how you plan to change
pkg_add but if I were doing it, I would do something like this:
PKG_PATH=/local-packages/All://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/packages/All/
Then
pkg_add foo.tgz
first looks for foo.tgz in /local-packages/All dir. and all of its
subdirectoris and then ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/packages/All and
all of its subdirectory.
As you can see, the All dir. is redundant :-)
Too bad that : is used in both PATHs as well as URLs.
--bakul
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