On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Wesley Shields <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote: >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Julien, >> > >> > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a >> > complete package over many individual ones? >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. >> your packages are built with non default options and you think its >> overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a >> complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb >> device), which is less error prone than 150 files. >> The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired >> ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the >> machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! > > Do you intend to add the "complete-package" target also or is that out > of scope? >
Yes, it is scheduled to add the ability to build complete packages from the ports tree. The name of the target is not yet endorsed but I think that "complete-package" is pretty straight forward. Regards, Julien _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
