On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Philip M. Gollucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florent Thoumie wrote: >> >> This adds support for /etc/pkg.conf configuration file. >> Also, this adds support for naive multi-site package fetching. >> >> Any comment welcome (and appreciated). >> >> Patch is here: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-config.diff >> Tarball is here: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-0a553aac.tar.bz2 > > Hi flz, > > I don't quite get what the end goal is. It looks like /etc/pkg.conf is > duplicating a lot of things already in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. > > Would not it be better to just have the pkg_install tools read that file > instead ? > > I probably missed all the back story here, so feel free to put me in my > place.
Packages can be used without a full tree (as Kris mentioned). It can be argued that using only pkg_install to maintain packages is a PITA, but it's still possible. The fact that there's no proper tool part of or on top of pkg_install to do it is irrelevant. > The multi-site package fetching is definitely something I'm interested it, > but I also figured it would just iterate over the values in PACKAGESITE > > PACKAGESITE=ftp://foo/stdpath/base/Latest/ ftp://foo/stdpath/www/Latest > > where base would have things like sudo, bash, vim, etc... and could be used > on multiple computers. > > www would have things like apache22 mod_X and would be used on 'www' class > machines. I'm not sure what behaviour you're describing there. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
