From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 27 15:21:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10108 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:21:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10100 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:21:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27053; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:20:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd027034; Tue Oct 27 16:20:33 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12516; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:20:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810272320.QAA12516@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD certified software (was: WordPerfect 8 for Linux) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 23:20:30 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, wes@softweyr.com, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981028091347.W20920@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Oct 28, 98 09:13:47 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I have an issue with the install process, and with "brandelf". I > > think this should be done transparently. > > > > I suspect this means providing a FreeBSD installer for the product, > > and trying to convince them to ship the installer with their > > software (most desirable), or provide it on their site (less > > desirable, since the program won't install "out of the box" > > that way). > > Good point. This would also include documentation on how to install > for FreeBSD, as well as any special things needed ("In order to run > YoyoFloop on your FreeBSD system, you must have installed the Linux > emulator"). But I don't think it should be a condition of > certification ("Certified at class 2 for use with FreeBSD" :-) I was thinking in terms of a script (or package) that used the output of "pkg_info -a -q" (or set dependencies) such that the installation was straight-forward, given the commercial vendor's installation media. This would dispense with the "special needs". And I think that it *is* necessary for ceritification -- the existance of the scripts to do the install, not necessarily the provision of the scripts by the vendor. On the other hand, asking a vendor to include a file "FreeBSD.sh", such that the install instructions were: cd /mnt sh FreeBSD.sh Could only be a good thing (replace mnt with whatever net appropriate unpacking directory was used for network programs; however, I think it's best to get on the CDROM, and to provide packages for net available software -- like Netscape -- where possible). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message