Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-30 Thread James Butler
On Sunday, April 11, 2010, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > If I'm understanding you correctly you're saying it's an issue when I do: > > pkg_add A B C > > # 1 year passes > > pkg_add D > > # D depends on A, B, C, of different revisions. pkg_add barfs because > it can't find the app

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-13 Thread James Butler
On 13/04/10 19:09, Lucas Holt wrote: On 4/10/2010 3:18 PM, k...@pcbsd.org wrote However for my more hard-core friends, nothing stopping you from running your own ports down the road, more power to ya! For doing something like embedded work or a server this makes total sense and I think it is a

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/13/10 12:09 AM, Lucas Holt wrote: On 4/10/2010 3:18 PM, k...@pcbsd.org wrote However for my more hard-core friends, nothing stopping you from running your own ports down the road, more power to ya! For doing something like embedded work or a server this makes total sense and I think it is

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-13 Thread Lucas Holt
On 4/10/2010 3:18 PM, k...@pcbsd.org wrote However for my more hard-core friends, nothing stopping you from running your own ports down the road, more power to ya! For doing something like embedded work or a server this makes total sense and I think it is a huge positive for FreeBSD, no reason t

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-12 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 03:44:37PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/11/10 12:20 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:13:12PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>On 4/11/10 11:44 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >>>On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/11/10 12:20 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:13:12PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/11/10 11:44 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/11/10 3:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: I already pointed in the other

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:13:12PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/11/10 11:44 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >>On 4/11/10 3:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > >> > >>>I already pointed in the other reply in this thread, $ORIGIN dy

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/11/10 11:44 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/11/10 3:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: I already pointed in the other reply in this thread, $ORIGIN dynamic token should solve the issue. See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-19

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/11/10 3:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > >I already pointed in the other reply in this thread, $ORIGIN dynamic > >token should solve the issue. See > >http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/chapter3-13312?l=en&a=view > >

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/11/10 3:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: I already pointed in the other reply in this thread, $ORIGIN dynamic token should solve the issue. See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1984/chapter3-13312?l=en&a=view yes, teh question I have since I am not alinker expert is do we support it? t

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread James Butler
On Sunday, April 11, 2010, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > > If I'm understanding you correctly you're saying it's an issue when I do: > > pkg_add A B C > > # 1 year passes > > pkg_add D > > # D depends on A, B, C, of different revisions. pkg_add barfs because > it can't find the app

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 03:45:20PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > >On 4/10/10 12:07 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>[1] Actually, PBI might work just fine even for > >>embedded if we address the disk bloat issue. One > >>approach would be to make > >>/Package/Bar/libfoo-2.8.7.so

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/10/10 10:06 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: It's more than just diskspace though. Consider the fact that now you're going to lose a lot of the memory sharing between shared libs and what-not, and now you'd have to be running N number of daemons . Take PCBSD for instance -- do they really revisio

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/10/10 3:35 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: [...] >> If I'm understanding you correctly you're saying it's an issue when I do: >> >> pkg_add A B C >> >> # 1 year passes >> >> pkg_add D >> >> # D depends on A, B, C, of different revisions.

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > not to be a troll but ... > > ... for those that want the ease-of-use of PBIs, why not just use PC-BSD > in the first place? They seem to have their own QA process in place in > terms of keeping the various large applications at a sane level

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Tim Kientzle
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [dropped current@ since it doesn't take non-member posts] Tim Kientzle wrote: The LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue is the most interesting problem here. I don't immediately see a solution that doesn't include teaching ld-elf.so.1 about some form of per-application library p

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/10/10 5:43 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [dropped current@ since it doesn't take non-member posts] Tim Kientzle wrote: The LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue is the most interesting problem here. I don't immediately see a solution that doesn't include teaching ld-elf.so.1 about some form of per-a

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread perryh
[dropped current@ since it doesn't take non-member posts] Tim Kientzle wrote: > The LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue is the most interesting > problem here. I don't immediately see a solution that > doesn't include teaching ld-elf.so.1 about some form > of per-application library path. Maybe install PBI

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Linimon
not to be a troll but ... ... for those that want the ease-of-use of PBIs, why not just use PC-BSD in the first place? They seem to have their own QA process in place in terms of keeping the various large applications at a sane level. Kernel development could (just like it is on the Macs) be don

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Tim Kientzle
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I do have a question, assuming PBI's were merged officially into the FreeBSD ports tree, say I had PostgreSQL Server installed, via PBI. then I wanted to tweak a setting so I: cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/ && make deinstall clean would the PBI at this point

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Tim Kientzle
Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/10/10 12:07 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: [1] Actually, PBI might work just fine even for embedded if we address the disk bloat issue. One approach would be to make /Package/Bar/libfoo-2.8.7.so a symlink or hardlink to /Package/Shared/libfoo-2.8.7.so- This gives easy sharin

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/10/10 12:07 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: If I'm understanding you correctly you're saying it's an issue when I do: pkg_add A B C # 1 year passes pkg_add D # D depends on A, B, C, of different revisions. pkg_add barfs because it can't find the applications, etc. This is

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Tim Kientzle
Garrett Cooper wrote: If I'm understanding you correctly you're saying it's an issue when I do: pkg_add A B C # 1 year passes pkg_add D # D depends on A, B, C, of different revisions. pkg_add barfs because it can't find the applications, etc. This is something that's been hashed over a numbe

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:18 AM, wrote: > > > > > On Sat 10/04/10 3:35 AM , Garrett Cooper wrote: > > [...] > >> >> yes but there are still dependency problems if you want to install a >> single >> package and you installed all the previous ones a year ago. >> With PBIs each package is self stan

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/10/10 3:35 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 4/10/10 12:20 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM,

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/10/10 10:36 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I do have a question, assuming PBI's were merged officially into the FreeBSD ports tree, say I had PostgreSQL Server installed, via PBI. then I wanted to tweak a setting so I: cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/&& make deinstall clean wou

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread kris
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px On Sat 10/04/10 3:35 AM , Garrett Cooper wrote: [...] > > yes but there are still dependency problems if you want to install a single > package and you installed all the previous ones a year ago. > With PBIs each packa

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >>> >>> Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr PBI), some >>> others and I, felt that these ideas seemed to ma

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/10/10 12:20 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. >>  wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Adam Vande More >>>  wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/10/10 12:20 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr PBI), some others and I, felt th

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-10 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Adam Vande More >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-09 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> >> Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr PBI), some >> others and I, felt that these ideas seemed to make some sense >> and so I put them here for comment. >> >> > FWIW,

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-09 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > sorry for the cross-post.. > > Last night at the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group meeting we had > a discussion about ports, and what is good about them and what > is bad about them. This has been a topic of discussion quite a > bit recently and

Re: ports and PBIs

2010-04-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr PBI), some > others and I, felt that these ideas seemed to make some sense > and so I put them here for comment. > > FWIW, when I see these discussions I'm always left wondering what's the ba

ports and PBIs

2010-04-09 Thread Julian Elischer
sorry for the cross-post.. Last night at the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group meeting we had a discussion about ports, and what is good about them and what is bad about them. This has been a topic of discussion quite a bit recently and we were looking for a solution that would allow us to keep the go