I've been working on setting up ports a little bit. I've finally gotten to installing OpenBSD (this time on intel instead of mac68k) and it uses ports like the other BSDs.
Ports are really nice - basically you can download the entire ports tree, or just one. Then, you change directory into /usr/ports/net/wget (for example) and do a make - then a make install. The system automatically gets the original file, patches it and configures it, and builds it for your system. In the case of OpenBSD, it even creates the package and installs THAT when you do a make install. Considering what this could mean for LEAF, consider this: a NFS-enabled LEAF system, with / from a full system mounted somewhere. Changing directories to /usr/src/ports/net/wget, do a make (pulls the file in, patches, builds, compiles) - and a make install. After the make install is done, the LEAF system now has /tmp/wget.lrp and an installed wget binary. Another possibility: using that full Linux system again, doing the same thing - except this time a make install uses scp and a private key to copy the file over to the LEAF system, then uses ssh and a private key to install the package on the LEAF system. Thoughts? -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
