To be a new DFly commiter

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sat Mar 17 08:21:17 PDT 2007


On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 06:58:58PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     What does this mean?  I would dearly like to integrate portions of
>     pkgsrc managed packages into our buildworld and installworld 
>     system, that is have the buildworld create a little package building
>     jail and build and install selected packages, with appropriate defaults,
>     as part of the base system build.  Then we would not have to import or
>     maintain the sources for at least the larger integrated pieces (such
>     as sendmail/postfix, bind, etc).

I have some not-yet-commited patches to make unprivileged building a lot
more useful. I also plan to work on cross-compilation support for parts
of the pkgsrc tree. Both will help a lot for tighter integration of
binary packages into distributions.

Joerg 





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