Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
I do have a question, assuming PBI's were merged officially into the
FreeBSD ports tree,
say I had PostgreSQL Server installed, via PBI. then I wanted to tweak
a setting so I:
cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/ && make deinstall clean
would the PBI at this point be removed? or no because it is self contained?
Basically, I believe the proposal here is to add:
* make pbi
to the ports build system to create a PBI from a
port and possibly add
* make installpbi
* make deinstallpbi
to install/deinstall just the resulting PBI.
In particular, I don't think anyone is suggesting
removing or changing any existing ports/package
capability. People who are happy with the existing
ports/package system could continue using it exactly
as-is.
This would imply that you might build Postgres
and install it both as a port/package and simultaneously
as a PBI. I'm not sure what that would mean, though.
The big question, of course: what impact would the
addition of "make pbi" have on existing port/package
support efforts? Is this creating extra work for
existing maintainers? Should it be optional
(enabled per-port) or somehow default?
I suspect the next step is for someone to put forward
a proposed implementation of "make pbi" so those
interested can start trying it out and see what the
impacts are. (If only the GSoC proposal deadline
hadn't already passed. ;-)
Tim
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