Keeping ports and packages synchronized

2007-07-22 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with the latest packages in order to minimize version mismatches and to allow easy mixing between them. So far I've been using a hack that does a listing of the packages-6-stable directory on the freebsd ftp, and uses the

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Kurt Abahar wrote: I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Sure, you probably

Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a way to keep the ports tree synchronized with that from which the latest packages in packages-6-stable were built. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thank you Be a

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No such facility exists, and I don't imagine anyone creating one any time soon because it would be VERY hard to accomplish for a large number of reasons. If you don't mind, could you please elaborate on this? Side note: I'm asking because I would

Re: Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

2007-07-26 Thread Kurt Abahar
--- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you can describe in more detail what you're trying to accomplish. Leave out potential solutions, just describe what your goal is. I have a lot of ports installed and it takes a lot of time to compile them. Therefore, I'm trying to use packages

WITHOUT_BSDPAN Option For The perl5.8 Port?

2007-02-24 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi Everyone, I often find that the installed bsdpan-* pseudo-packages aren't of great use to me. Would it be possible to add a WITHOUT_BSDPAN config option for the perl5.8 port in order to neglect the installation of the BSDPAN modules? I looked at the Makefile for the port to see if I could do

WITHOUT_BSDPAN Option For The perl5.8 Port?

2007-02-24 Thread Kurt Abahar
Hi Everyone, I often find that the installed bsdpan-* pseudo-packages aren't of great use to me. Would it be possible to add a WITHOUT_BSDPAN config option for the perl5.8 port in order to neglect the installation of the BSDPAN modules? I looked at the Makefile for the port to see if I could do