From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11748 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 10:30:20 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jan 2003 10:30:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 23244 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2003 10:30:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 5639 Received: (qmail 23229 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2003 10:30:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:30:01 +0800 From: James Devenish To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: Proposed changes to _bsd_pkg -- request for comments Message-ID: <20030103103001.GA19326@gulag.guild.uwa.edu.au> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk References: <20030102140412.GG2863@gulag.guild.uwa.edu.au> <20030103083927.GB17651@gulag.guild.uwa.edu.au> <20030103111950.A31382@globnix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030103111950.A31382@globnix.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i In message <20030103111950.A31382@globnix.org> on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:19:50AM +0100, Phil Pennock wrote: > It's also worth noting that all the *BSDs have online man-pages. LOL pretty stupid of me to overlook that. I could have looked at the FreeBSD man pages long ago! Oh well. > OpenBSD: No worries, I have machines running OpenBSD (but not {Free,Net}BSD). > Under FreeBSD, packages are strictly optional and are built from the > installed files (as opposed to the OpenBSD fake-root install, then > package creation, then real install from packages). _If_ > /usr/ports/packages has been created, then packages will be created > under there; if not, then they'll be created inside the ports directory > and you'll have things like /usr/ports/shells/zsh/zsh-4.0.6.tgz. Interesting. Though _bsd_pkg was made for FreeBSD originally, I wonder if it is still accurate for FreeBSD. > Also, FreeBSD is moving steadily towards bzip2 instead of gzip, so > you'll see packages with .tbz2 extensions (or, for a short while, there > were .tbz extensions, still for bzip2). Which will be created, .tbz2 or > .tgz, depends simply upon how old your ports infrastructure makefiles > are. My workstation has both, simply because I keep my ports tree > updated, including /usr/ports/Mk/. Okay, I introduced a switch statement for filename extensions because it seemed to be more involved than simply t[gbz]. I should probably dig up archives of the -workers thread on that topic, to see if there is anything about what you just mentioned. > -Phil (the person to blame if you dislike OpenBSD's not including zftp > unless you explicitly pick that flavo(u)r of zsh.) :)