Subject: Re: source packages
To: None <drhodus@machdep.com>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/09/2005 02:49:06
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:42:17AM +0000, David Rhodus wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, David Rhodus wrote:
> > > Just wondering has anyone ever considered a method for producing
> > > source packages using pkgsrc ?
> > 
> > what is a "source package",
> 
> What I was wondering if there was already a way to make a package of
> the source.  Something of the equivalent of an SRPM.

There is no such concept in pkgsrc because packages require the rest
of pkgsrc to be around in order to build.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>