ports (was: Re: Time for newvers)

Sat Sep 6 15:00:11 PDT 2003

Lately David Rhodus told:

> I'm not sure that's exactly the right approach to take. The FreeBSD
> ports tree is a very dynamic item, as there is a large number of
> people tracking the changes of the packages. Along with location
> changes of the packages on the internet is a very, very time consuming
> process. We will need to overlay the FreeBSD ports system with our
> own, at least until interest grows. Without doing that the tree will
> become quickly stale. With a few hours one could develop a simple set
> of shell scripts to harvest this information from the Makefile and
> distinfo files.
> Hence plugging the file location and any other BSD specifics from the
> files dir that will be need to build the package into our
> ports/packaging system.

I definitvely agree. If nobody issues this first, I'll take a look at
this at the mid of next week.

cheers
  simon

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