*- Gossamer wrote about "Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system." > Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... > > (Hey, I know you :)) > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:55:24PM -0500, Edward Ing wrote: >>> It didn't work of course. But anybody got and idea about how much >>> work it would take to get whole ports structure paralleled for >>> Debian or Redhat? All the code is open, I believe. >> There's not really much need, as I see it. A FreeBSD port consists >> off some control info and a patch; the makefile grabs the source >> off the net, applies the patch, and compiles and installs the software. >> Debian source packages also consist of the upstream source and a patch. >> However, we provide precompiled binaries for all the packages where >> FreeBSD do not. > > It would be -very- nice if you provided sorta "patch"es though - since > we have binaries I guess a "patch" would consist of all the files > in a particular .deb that have changed since the last release. I > suspect this would be a fair bit less that all the files in a lot of > casess. > > You could get apt/dselect to do this automatically if it found both a > "patch" and the previous installed ver. > > > bekj >
There was a discussion of this just this month on debian-devel. Look at the archives, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9811/threads.html, for the subject 'debian binary diff system ?!'. Someone has worked on a script but I think it is not going to happen overnight. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
