pkgsrc build from source issue?

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Jan 5 09:06:20 PST 2006


:
:On Thu, January 5, 2006 5:25 am, Richard Nyberg said:
:
:> If you run df 1.4 there's no need to build the bootstrap as bmake and
:> friends are already installed. At least if you install from the RC2 cd.
:
:Hmm... upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4 does not seem to bring in those tools. 
:Should it?

    No, it doesn't.  We'd have to adjust make upgrade to check for and
    provide targets to bring in the tools.  The pkgsrc tools are actually
    built by nrelease and not by buildworld/installworld.

    It's a bit of a hack.  I agree we need to better-integrate the pkgsrc
    tools.  I am considering bringing in just the bootstrap and related
    required tools into our CVS tree for just that purpose.  We would
    keep them 100% synchronized, but it would remove the need to separately
    fetch the pkgsrc bootstrap and related packages.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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