On Oct 26, 2007, at 1:56 PM, paul beard wrote:
Is there a status document that addresses where things stand on efforts like this? I haven't been all that successful at building packages within port (port pkg foo where foo is something i would rather not build again on a second machine).
You can handle that pretty easily with archivemode. I even had a patch kind of working that would look for archivemode style archives on a remote machine (served up via the webserver) before trying to build (and if the archive was there, it would just download it and use it). I haven't really had time to work on the patch to make it acceptable for merging to base/ though.
if packages, especially meta-packages, could be licked, it would make things like gimp and gnome a lot more accessible, as there wouldn't be the huge build delay.
I think we can all agree that that is a good goal. We've had a bunch of different attempts to approach it (archivemode, mp-light, our pre- build packages we offered for download for a while ...), nothing has 'stuck' though. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dluke@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+