Subject: Re: fink, pkgsrc (was Re: powerbook g4)
To: Sean Doran <smd@ab.use.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/28/2002 23:09:07
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 02:18:41AM +0000, Sean Doran wrote:
> | I have been working on getting pkgsrc to work on OS X and it
> | hasn't gone well so far.
> 
> First thing I ran into was case-insensitivity on HFS+ partitions.

Mmmmmm, "Unix" that violates POSIX in its default configuration.
Sigh.  I guess at least one thing about OS/X has to really suck
(okay, two things.  the ancient libc really sucks, too).

> My OS X root partition is, naturally, HFS+.  Guess what happens
> when pkgsrc/devel/cvs conflicts with pkgsrc/devel/CVS.  Whee.

You use the CVS option to name the "CVS" directories something else?

;-)

Thor