Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Ah! But this breaks making /usr/ports/INDEX, which you are supposed to do everytime you cvsup the ports. Portsdb -U is still broken or at least it still generates many, many spurious messages.On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:59:10PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:53:29PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote:You dunderheads :) are all missing the point. Why isn't there something a few notches above "pkg_add -r" and a few notches below knowing how to cvsup and downloading a massive, obscenely extravagant ports tree? Why can't someone write a shell script or binary that would prompt the user with: Hello, which port would you like?No reason. Progress happens when someone sits down and does the work. Perhaps this would be a good project for you to learn more about the workings of FreeBSD. Kris
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Peter, these things get done by people doing them. That is the tautology
of the situation. You might find your name in lights if you become that
"someone" who does it.
Btw you might consider the use of the "refuse" file if you wish to not
download certain ports or categories of ports. I suppose if you put
everything in the "refuse" file you may still get the ports framework,
for whatever that is worth. My refuse file eliminates all the ports for
the languages I don't speak, anything to do with palms, the new
financial category and some others.
I have at least one system with a partition called ports that I mount as /usr/ports. I do the same thing to /usr/src and /usr/obj for speed.Remember one of the advantages of having the tree is that by browsing the README's you may find just the program you are looking for without having to ask for it. If you are so tight on disk space you may have a problem building anything anyway. Get someone to buy you a bigger disk for Christmas :).
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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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