Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 00:10:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: adam@veda.is, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT avail Message-ID: <199510200710.AAA17668@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199510200644.XAA03321@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Oct 19, 95 11:44:23 pm
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> > * Please don't use the NO_PACKAGE as the criteria on weither the distfiles > * end up on the CDROM this time. Many distfiles where left off of the 2.0.5 > * CDROM and it appears that this was used as the criteria for doing it. I > * already mentioned one to you that was this way in private email (elm) and > * just want to make sure that you have found a ``better'' criteria mechanism > * for what distfiles go on the cdrom. > > It's not been the "criteria", Rod...it's only that there is no safe > and convenient mechanism other than "make package" to do the top-down > build. ;) Perhaps criteria was the wrong word, how about selection mechanism or control knob. It was what caused these to be missing on the 2.0.5 cdrom correct? > I'm planning to revamp the whole legal/commercial/slimey license > paradigm after 2.1 goes out. For instance, the ones that say "don't > sell for profit" can be on the ftp site as distfiles and packages. YAK? (Yet another Knob?) :-) > * I don't have a list of ones I have run accross but I know there where at > * least 2 or 3 of them that the only reason they are not packages is because > * they have compiled in gunk that makes packaging them impractical. > * > * Seems here is yet another one :-). > > For now, we need to figure this out case-by-case. Here is what I > found: > > ===== > >> grep NO_PACKAGE /usr/ports/*/*/Makefile ... > /usr/ports/mail/elm/Makefile:NO_PACKAGE= yes # I don't know, why Compiles in the domain name of the host it is built on :-(. ... > > Which means, elm, gn, wn, inn, and XFree86 don't have distribution > problems. I've already fetched elm, wn and XFree86, can I do the same > for gn and inn? Maintainers? Adam & Torsten? :) Thanks for the fetch. Inn is probably in the compiled in configuration boat (it would be very hard to make a portable package of inn as many things are setup during the build process :-). Not sure about gn, don't use it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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