How to break the bootstrapping chain

Thierry Thomas thierry at FreeBSD.org
Fri Dec 8 15:27:54 PST 2006


Le Sam  9 déc 06 à  0:14:43 +0100, Karel Miklav <karel at lovetemple.net>
 écrivait :
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:12:04PM +0100, Karel Miklav wrote:
> >> 1. what do I have to do that gnat-gcc packages will
> >>    appear on FreeBSD FTP sites?
> >
> >Get a buildable package committed to the FreeBSD ports tree.
> 
> Ups, sorry, they _are_ on the main site. They're just not
> mirrored on couple other sites I checked.

I guess that you need one binary package to bootstrap, *and* your source
tarball. See the port lang/mlton for such an example.
-- 
Th. Thomas.


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