Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 25-Nov-1998, Gossamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... > > (Hey, I know you :)) Hey, I know both of 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

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread servis
*- 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&#

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "G" == Gossamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> It would be -very- nice if you provided sorta "patch"es though - G> since we have binaries I guess a "patch" would consist of all the G> files in a particular .deb that have changed since the last G> release. I suspect this would be a fair bit l

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Gossamer
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

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:55:24PM -0500, Edward Ing wrote: > I liked it so much, I downloaded the FreeBSD port making tree into linux and > tried a "make install." > > It didn't work of course. But anybody got and idea about how much work it > would take to get whole ports structure paralleled fo

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Richard Lyon
You would have to examine every source patch to determine if it was really required and if debian patches are required. I use the freebsd ports quite a bit on a bsd machine and I don't really care for a debian version of the same beast. > > I liked it so much, I downloaded the FreeBSD port ma

What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Edward Ing
I liked it so much, I downloaded the FreeBSD port making tree into linux and tried a "make install." 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. Edward Ing