Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:52:49 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: augmenting a port: request for advice Message-ID: <B16E66A6-EE5B-4475-8D03-CD5EBB48D7A2@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <47596EE1.3070606@math.missouri.edu> References: <47594FAB.8050804@icyb.net.ua> <47596C80.8030905@icyb.net.ua> <47596EE1.3070606@math.missouri.edu>
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On Dec 7, 2007, at 8:03 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 07/12/2007 15:50 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>> So I have this solution worth of Solomon's wisdom :-) >>> It is to add an option to the port, say with WITH_FUSE. When the >>> option >>> is turned on the port would download my sources in addition to the >>> original sources, then modify the build scripts, patch the original >>> sources and build an additional program udfclientfs. Updating >>> plist and >>> dependencies would also be done, of course. >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118484 >> Please comment. > > > Here is an idea. I notice that the extra sources you want to > download are rather small (about 7000 bytes when zipped). How > about if you put the sources into the "files" subdirectory of the > port itself, and then the port doesn't have to download anything > extra. > > So, for example, the portlint port comes complete with full > sources, adding up to nearly 100,000 bytes in its "files" > subdirectory. So adding 7000 bytes to a port is going to be small > by comparison. No dice on that I think. It's artistic license, which means (AFAIK) that it can't be distributed with the ports tree as it's not BSD licensed code. -Garrett
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