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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!noc.near.net!shore.shore.net!rwwa.com!witr From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: .../ports and ported software. Date: 14 Sep 1994 13:51:04 GMT Organization: North Shore Access/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net) Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <356v48$8ut@shore.shore.net> Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rwwa.com I know that the FreeBSD 2.x team is doing something like this, but I'd like to get my oar in by making the following suggestion: Could you place in some obvious place (say .../ports/.../diffs/) a set of xxx:yyy.diff.gz files that are produced by CVS ``rdiff'' that will take a release version of some software package (xxx) and port it to some version of freeBSD (yyy)? For example, the diffs to emacs version 19.20 to make it run on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 would be emacs-19.22:1.1.5.1.diff.gz. This can all be done almost automatically using CVS and vendor branches. (And yes, untill 2.x is *stable*, it would be very helpfull to have 1.1.5.1 diff files for many things...) ((And, I would hope, the need for ports should slowly subside as the software writers include the diffs into their source...)) -- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway, Lynn MA 01901 USA, Net: witr@rwwa.COM