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Date:      16 Apr 1998 09:49:41 -0500
From:      stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <Peter.Jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Package management (was Re: Come on guys, close a PR or two, will ya ?)
Message-ID:  <87sond254q.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:01:30 -0700"
References:  <1575.892706490@time.cdrom.com>

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:

> > will work just fine... *it's already a freebsd port*...  So the only
> > work involved would be adding "make rpm" to bsd.ports.mk.
> 
> I like the way that rolls so easily off his tongue. :-)
> 
> Have you actually looked at what it would take to create a "make rpm"
> target that would work with even a reasonable majority of our ports?
> 
> Please, go look.  Then come back and tell us again how easy a drop-in
> solution RPMs are. :)

No, of course not... ;-)

However, if one were to simplistically divide the process up into two
steps: 1. make a new package format 2. make ports create that format.
Then rpm's would get you 1 for free.  That's all that I meant.  This
work of "make rpm" or "make xxx" will have to be done no matter what, no?


--

Steve Farrell


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