Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... (Hey, I know you :))
> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:55:24PM -0500, Edward Ing wrote: >> It didn't work of course. But anybody got and idea about how much >> work it would take to get whole ports structure paralleled for >> Debian or Redhat? All the code is open, I believe. > There's not really much need, as I see it. A FreeBSD port consists > off some control info and a patch; the makefile grabs the source > off the net, applies the patch, and compiles and installs the software. > Debian source packages also consist of the upstream source and a patch. > However, we provide precompiled binaries for all the packages where > FreeBSD do not. It would be -very- nice if you provided sorta "patch"es though - since we have binaries I guess a "patch" would consist of all the files in a particular .deb that have changed since the last release. I suspect this would be a fair bit less that all the files in a lot of casess. You could get apt/dselect to do this automatically if it found both a "patch" and the previous installed ver. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Gay-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : All you have to do to work on ZigZag is fully unscrew your head : and put it down in a safe place where it can be sure to watch : you. -- Ted Nelson
