Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:16:34 +0000 From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/comms/ltmdm Makefile pkg-message pkg-plist ports/comms/ltmdm/files ltmdm.sh.in pkg-message.in Message-ID: <20060227141634.GD14186@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060227135835.GA24892@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200602271240.k1RCevEm001572@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060227135835.GA24892@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:58:35AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:40:57PM +0000, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> > osa 2006-02-27 12:40:57 UTC
> >
> > FreeBSD ports repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > comms/ltmdm Makefile pkg-plist
> > Added files:
> > comms/ltmdm/files pkg-message.in
> > Removed files:
> > comms/ltmdm pkg-message
> > comms/ltmdm/files ltmdm.sh.in
> > Log:
> > Install kernel module to ${KMODDIR}. [1]
> > Update port infrastructure.
> > Do not build package for this port, because it depends on kernel sources.
>
> This isn't a good reason not to package it. For example, the package
> from the release package sets is quite fine to use on release systems.
Two reasons against package:
1. ltmdm-1.4.tgz distribution containes Linux binary kernel module
ltmdmobj.o. The licence for this file in unknown. AFAIK ltmdmobj.o
module built by Lucent (Agere).
2. ltmdm package should be compiled with FreeBSD source tree.
--
Sergey A. Osokin
osa@FreeBSD.org
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