New FreeBSD ports system - bachelors work

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aldis Berjoza writes:
>> Hello!
>
>> Some time ago I've read, that FreeBSD might be interested
>> to move ports tree to database (sqlite?).
>> This would require rewriting of all existing and writing
>> some new tools related to ports.
>
> I hope pkg_improved[1] GSoC project might interest you.
>
> [1] - http://wiki.freebsd.org/AndersNore/pkg_improved

    That's going to become moot in a bit as several of us are working
on a combined effort to improve pkg_install. The patch probably also
doesn't apply 100%.
Thanks,
-Garrett