Rob Deker writes:
 > I've looked a little bit at the FreeBSD ports methedology, and I think it's
 > pretty nifty. It does make it a bit of a pain to just "go get the source"
 > (ie. I wanted somethign from the FreeBSD ports collection because they
 > had it. I wanted to compile it under SunOS though and finding the source
 > for it was a bit wierd.) Let's see if we can sketch something out on
 > how to organize it and I can put it up on our ftp server here (ftp.digex.net)
 > once we figure it out. I should also have a LOT more disk space on that 
 > machine to play with soon.....
 
	I find quite interesting having the source (original source, 
unpatched for NetBSD, with diff for NetBSD if necesssary as a separate
element) available. RedHat and Debian distributions provide it
to some degree... Maybe looking also at their tools could be worthy.

		Jesus.

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