On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton > <brampton+free...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Julien, > > > > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a > > complete package over many individual ones? > > Hi Andrew, > > If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. > your packages are built with non default options and you think its > overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a > complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb > device), which is less error prone than 150 files. > The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired > ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the > machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila!
Do you intend to add the "complete-package" target also or is that out of scope? -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
