Re: New package: makeports

1997-12-19 Thread Elie Rosenblum
And thus spake Turbo Fredriksson, on Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 08:10:19AM +0100: > On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > > When you enter the directory for a package you can run make > > with several options, to build .deb's, just build binaries, or just get > > the latest version of the source p

Re: New package: makeports

1997-12-19 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > When you enter the directory for a package you can run make > with several options, to build .deb's, just build binaries, or just get > the latest version of the source packages. Do you meen 'Debian-on-xxxBSD'? If that's the case, I'm working on a Free

New package: makeports

1997-12-19 Thread Elie Rosenblum
After talking with some *BSD-using friends, I decided this might be an interesting project...basically, it would read the available file (yes, I know this is frowned upon, but this seems to be the best way to get some of this stuff) and construct a ports tree, similar to /usr/ports in the free BSD'