----- Original Message ----- From: Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Debian FreeBSD
> Let's say you want bash on your FreeBSD system. Which approach > are you going to take? > > A) > > cd /usr/ports/.../bash > make > make install Ultimately, it should be possible to debianize all ports, so that building for Debian FreeBSD should be identical to doing so for Debian GNU/Linux, i.e.: dpkg-source -x bash*dsc cd bash* debuild -us -uc sudo dpkg -i ../bash*deb This might well be built into the port's Makefile, however, thus the actual sequence would be exactly as specified in A. This is probably less confusing for those used to the BSD way of doing things. What FreeBSD has that Debian has previously lacked is the automatic source code updation, using CVSup. Debian for i386 does now have CVSup, but it depends upon Modula-3 for building, which is not yet available on other platforms. I've begun work on porting PM3 to Debian alpha, but will need help getting it to other platforms as well. (FWIW, the upstream maintainer has agreed to incorporate all Debian ports, and is installing Debian for himself.) In fact, if FreeBSD ports can be debianized, and CVSup can be incorporated into Debian on all platforms, then the ultimate next step would be to adopt ports for Debian.
