I'd guess that I'm between 2 and 5% done with my BSD/i386 port of
glibc. I may be way optimistic... or not.
There is nothing but an empty Makefile in the bsd/i386 tree, so
I've collected my hunnypots and am sitting in my thinking place.
As Pooh would say; or my toddler daughter wou
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
# For the benefit on non-Debian folks: dpkg just knows how to install,
# manipulate, and remove .deb packages. It doesn't know how to download them,
# and it isn't very intelligent about installing them in the correct order.
# There's a front-end gui call
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
# A query about the ports: when they fetch source via FTP, do they have
# an exact version they need, or will they search for the newest and attempt
# to use it?
The majority of the time they get only the one they need. No
searching, no fuss, it is all
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 07:06:32PM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> This is essentially what the ports collection does for FreeBSD.
> You can use it to build packages from source and manage packages
> to some extent. What you are talking about (forgive me for
> being a Debian newbie) is putting togethe
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:30:51PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> As far as I know, we do not keep track of changes over time
> as in a source control type system. I have never had cause
> to look back between revisions of a package to see what has
> changed. Part of the reason is that we typicall
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 03:48:25PM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> the wire. The Ports Collection tree is the "source" people
> like Satoshi, Justin, Garrett, and myself use to build the
> packages. Since the tree is available to everyone many of
> the more accomplished hacker types took to using the
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:41:14AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> 3. If it is determined that having the raw source is very desirable for
> certain packages, it should be possible to use the dpkg-source tool as a
> basis for dpkg to handle the install and build of packages. Our
> autobuilders (at
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:10:19AM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> Who maintains dpkg? The Debian project? A group of people?
> A single person? The reason I ask is that there are few
> patches in the port that seem to address features not directly
> related to FreeBSD.
That's a rather painful ques
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:23:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> Yeah, but what's particularly funny here is that a good
> chunk of BSD relies | defaults to things-GNU. gcc, g++,
> RCS, ispell, and on and on and on.
True, but there are a lot of tools which ARE available in GNU versi
According to Hamish Moffatt:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:39:15PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > If the Core members of FreeBSD would agree to fully
> > integrate the best of GNU into our BSD, that would be
> > outstanding.
>
> Perhaps, but I think there are many BSD users who would n
According to Hamish Moffatt:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:50:00PM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> > Linux has a sex appeal that BSD doesn't. Many of the "newer,
> > intell..." have an easier time equating themselves with Linus
> > (and some want to be just like him), but few see themselves
> > hanging
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:39:15PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> If the Core members of FreeBSD would agree to fully
> integrate the best of GNU into our BSD, that would be
> outstanding.
Perhaps, but I think there are many BSD users who would not be impressed
with a GNU invasion
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:11:47PM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> like your xterm's background blue and I like my compiler to be
> egcs just isn't an effort I'm interested in.
No argument there -- Debian 2.2 has egcs installed as /usr/bin/gcc.
I think we would have done that in Debian 2.1 as well, b
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:59:35AM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> BTW, what does FHS mean? Something like 'man 7 hier' on a
> BSD box?
Very much like that. It explains what should go where on the file system
and the rationale. I can't find a URL for it just at the moment though.
Hamish
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Hamish
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 05:50:00PM -0500, Steve Price wrote:
> Linux has a sex appeal that BSD doesn't. Many of the "newer,
> intell..." have an easier time equating themselves with Linus
> (and some want to be just like him), but few see themselves
> hanging out with a 50+ year old hippy with a g
> This is essentially what the ports collection does for FreeBSD.
> You can use it to build packages from source and manage packages
> to some extent. What you are talking about (forgive me for
> being a Debian newbie) is putting together an automated .deb
> build tree. You have something similar
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
# Based on the discussion we've been having to date, I think one
# of the first things we need to do is develop a policy regarding
# how Debian should work a "ports" methodology into its existing
# system.
This is essentially what the ports collection doe
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