With *BSD and Re: 'Ports' for all

[Digital Wokan]

Okay, Marc.  You're scaring me.  I was just about to start a FreeBSD 4.3
install today on what was a Mandrake Cooker system.

Marc Chung wrote:
> 
> 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";
> > }