Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:55:57 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r464889 - in head/sysutils/cpupdate: . files Message-ID: <20180320155557.5leyphzghg7mju4c@ogg.in.absolight.net> In-Reply-To: <5AB12297.2090101@FreeBSD.org> References: <201803181027.w2IARJw3075413@repo.freebsd.org> <20180320084708.27t2g6cfvb7us7zq@atuin.in.mat.cc> <5AB12297.2090101@FreeBSD.org>
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--g32vuc6wbuplp4g3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:02:47PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On 20.03.2018 15:47, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >=20 > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:27:19AM +0000, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > >> Author: eugen > >> Date: Sun Mar 18 10:27:19 2018 > >> New Revision: 464889 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/464889 > >> > >> Log: > >> sysutils/cpupdate: - correct ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON message; > >> =20 > >> - be more specific in the COMMENT and pkg-descr: mention x86-centric= ity; > >> =20 > >> - in addition to CPM option, add INTEL convinience option to ease > >=20 > > I am not sure I understand why those are non default options (and why > > they are options at all, in fact) as they both seem to have important > > content that people will need. > =20 > All installed files must be added to pkg-plist and therefore included int= o the package. > However, platomav/CPUMicrocodes is really distinct project and its growth= is not syncronized with cpupdate. Then maybe this one should be in its own port? > More serious problem may steam from copyright issues: Intel's license all= ows > end users to utilize published CPU microcodes but I do not know if FreeBS= D project > has special permission to package and redistribute Intel's microcode file= s. >=20 > Intel's general licence does not permit redistribution and > I do not want to limit redistribution of cpupdate package itself > due to copyrighted blobs added to the package. I do not know about licensing issues. My point is that providing a package without the microcodes does not seem to make a lot of sense to me. --=20 Mathieu Arnold --g32vuc6wbuplp4g3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAABCgBmBQJasS8NXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQzQUI2OTc4OUQyRUQxMjEwNjQ0MEJBNUIz QTQ1MTZGMzUxODNDRTQ4AAoJEDpFFvNRg85IM1UP/R/YIrcIYrIjaBIb2gFNWEeH /m5QYqwSr6L9WZDZ53uic70ozluX6+aCqur/ss+5jkmH452YHbjcszw/yxWFRVKP SKOqV4Tmirohh6liaTOLc0tV/zj6lRxm0vmPXi6GOi+27Q10d/0Q2SbLX9FwL8EX HIKQubaApVmtMYzD10jNYdsKC56Vf5IiJU07MG+pKR2Jvj4P+1uhCVntFSaGHf/f m/YCrRSqYzxctLgZbcKO6nPG3E7PShtkY5ihipwn+dE6xYTjwSeXwpsX08/w3jlD wMQbZ6IUdgGk+P4j3wAZbBHX/nlmJEY4MfeprUUqx3dKywXt08lNk2xqP5glZmp6 15i2Is4rRN5+LmanXt5DZc4cYsCCzWEiIp4h6w0rjLiPKVF+2RL6RUDGUw2Hm1l+ +WgtaWJWYNaEOfOeXy8Fy45DVBwIKTHZZk9JCfBb0277Rl9O/uvxFirmMD74dCsD 0wrL9NA8hutbbzuPq0heSQvQBzLmlfrJwE7ZFvSDfVJfBbKxVRBub1JRltvStuJZ LqyhJqihH2612rNafMP/phYiIPnCAgCqeXqxioHYEPLrg+JBN4AffFN+HkVOJVgp szUsSfrsDOQ++BnfwD03drVliAcDfNWPeobCiJLUHh8QctjR10Z27KoOL7foFwum ha/OAj/tYN78eRJm/HJi =mpZB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --g32vuc6wbuplp4g3--
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