With *BSD and Re: 'Ports' for all

Marc Chung plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:43:22 -0700 (MST)


I wouldn't mind a bit of BSD on the list.  I just upgraded to 4.3-STABLE,
and I was having such a hard time understanding the mergemaster process.

diff this, diff that, eyeball the differences, uh huh.. :)

Cheers,

Marc Chung
mchung@asu.edu


On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, J.Francois wrote:

> I am on 4 different FreeBSD mailing lists and I can't remember
> which one the announcement was on :(
>
> I will fish thru my backups this weekend and see if I can find the
> Mac OSX ports and OpenPorts link(s) and post it.
>
> ALSO:
> Just how much interest is there in *BSD here?
> It might be time to discuss spinning off a new list.
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Gontran wrote:
> > Question:
> > --------
> > JLF was talking about something called 'open-ports' a new
> > project to bring the BSD ports system to other NIX platforms. Is there
> > a URL or a place to read more about it?
> >
> > Search on google turned up all the wrong goodies, and sourceforge doesn't
> > seem to have an entry that I can find.
> >
>
> Jean Francois - JLF Sends...
> MagusNet, Inc. - Design * Develop * Integrate
> if ( $make_buildworld || $make_buildkernel || $make_build )
> then { $HAVING_FUN_IS = $COMPILING{$BSD};
> } else {
> print "Sorry you can't do that with your Operating System";
> }
>
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