Re: Experimental pkgsrc GIT repo for DragonFly users

2009-09-14 Thread Alex
Matt, Just mirroring pkgsrc using git is of course fine; actually it's great, but I wasn't referring to that but rather to those *possible* future plans of, I quote, "do[ing] some sort of local mod thing in the future using another branch". Cheers, Alex Hornung

Re: Experimental pkgsrc GIT repo for DragonFly users

2009-09-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think there's a misunderstanding here. Right now all we are doing is mirroring the pkgsrc repo. We are mirroring it exactly. We are not forking or branching anything. Putting it into a git repo is a convenience to us and our users because NetBSD's cvs repo is slow and unre

Re: Experimental pkgsrc GIT repo for DragonFly users

2009-09-13 Thread Antonio Huete Jimenez
Hi all, I also agree with Alex. Maybe we should put more effort in fixing & submitting directly to upstream, than in branching pkgsrc and having our own fixes in a separate repo. Cheers, Antonio Huete > While the idea of having a git mirror of pkgsrc is nice, I totally disagree > with the idea of

Re: Experimental pkgsrc GIT repo for DragonFly users

2009-09-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Alex Hornung schrieb: While the idea of having a git mirror of pkgsrc is nice, I totally disagree with the idea of using it for local modifications. If we do that, we can just call it a fork directly and no need to call it pkgsrc anymore. Also, the solution to getting stuff working isn't keeping

RE: Experimental pkgsrc GIT repo for DragonFly users

2009-09-13 Thread Alex Hornung
While the idea of having a git mirror of pkgsrc is nice, I totally disagree with the idea of using it for local modifications. If we do that, we can just call it a fork directly and no need to call it pkgsrc anymore. Also, the solution to getting stuff working isn't keeping local modifications, bu

Experimental pkgsrc GIT repo for DragonFly users

2009-09-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
We have setup a GIT pkgsrc repo on avalon to give DragonFly users and developers a more reliable way to track the pkgsrc tree. git://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/pkgsrc.git The branch is 'vendor'. You can fetch from avalon or crater, and soon chlamydia as well. Crater