Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C
Brad Knowles
brad.knowles at skynet.be
Wed Jul 7 06:40:32 PDT 2004
At 8:25 AM -0500 2004-07-07, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> You have to get it into binary first. EZM3 is not available on many
> non-FreeBSD, non-Intel platforms. Although it's used *primarily* by the
> FreeBSD project, it seems like there would be enough of a demand for such a
> thing that other a portable version would be readily adopted by other
> projects.
Right, but does this prohibit the creation of binary-only cvsup
packages which don't rely on the ezm3 stuff once it's built? Then
people could do a pkg_add for that binary package, and not have to
build it from source....
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