GSoC:Complete Package support in the pkg_install tools and cleanup

[Wesley Shields]

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+freebsd at 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?

-- WXS