On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Wesley Shields w...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:30:13AM -0700, Julien Laffaye wrote:
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton
brampton+free...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Julien,
Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a
complete package over many individual ones?
Hi Andrew,
If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex.
your packages are built with non default options and you think its
overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a
complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb
device), which is less error prone than 150 files.
The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired
ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the
machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila!
Do you intend to add the complete-package target also or is that out
of scope?
Yes, it is scheduled to add the ability to build complete packages
from the ports tree.
The name of the target is not yet endorsed but I think that
complete-package is pretty straight forward.
Regards,
Julien
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