On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:06:37PM -0500, Amitai Schlair wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 05:13 PM, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Amitai Schlair wrote:
> >> Just bootstrapped pkgsrc on Darwin 5.2 (Mac OS X 10.1.2). Cool stuff!
> >> It's not yet as smooth a user experience as pkgsrc on NetBSD, but it's
> >> really promising.
> >
> > Good news! Well done - which bootstrap kit did you use?
> 
> darwin-bootstrap-20011221.tar.gz (the list archive led me to it).

Thanks. I've now made a symlink to that bootstrap kit called:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/agc/darwin-bootstrap.tar.gz

to make things a bit clearer.
 
> > Is there any way to convert from HFS+ to FFS?
> 
> Not that I know of. Also, the OS X install documentation says something 
> to the effect of "Use HFS+ unless you think you know you need FFS", 
> which means lots of people will use HFS+. :-)

That is disappointing.
 
> > What happens to the devel/cvs (package) directory?
> 
> I looked further, and that directory doesn't exist!
> 
> % pwd
> /usr/src/pkg/devel
> % ls | grep -i '^CVS$'
> CVS
> % ls CVS
> CVS          Entries      MESSAGE      PLIST        Repository   distinfo
> DESCR        Entries.Log  Makefile     README.html  Root         patches
> 
> Looks like devel/CVS (metadata) got extracted first, and then devel/cvs 
> (package) got extracted into the same directory because it seemed like 
> the right name. Ha ha, we're in wacky HFS+ Land!

That is, indeed, borked.

Regards,
Alistair