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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