From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 19:55:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7395916A505 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:55:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pav@FreeBSD.org) Received: from raven.customer.vol.cz (raven.customer.vol.cz [195.250.144.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05F713C471 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:55:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pav@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.0.23] (r3b159.net.upc.cz [213.220.193.159]) (authenticated bits=0) by raven.customer.vol.cz (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l12JtT0K043214 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 20:55:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pav@FreeBSD.org) From: Pav Lucistnik To: Luigi Rizzo In-Reply-To: <20070202113527.A98938@xorpc.icir.org> References: <200702021808.l12I8KBY073193@repoman.freebsd.org> <1170440345.33849.0.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070202103221.C97555@xorpc.icir.org> <1170441475.33849.7.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070202113527.A98938@xorpc.icir.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ciKgq3GjQ3ivMYzCSDUW" Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:55:29 +0100 Message-Id: <1170446129.2386.4.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Spam-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 195.250.144.108 X-Milter: Spamilter (Reciever: raven.customer.vol.cz; Sender-ip: 213.220.193.159; Sender-helo: [192.168.0.23]; ) Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pav@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:55:43 -0000 --=-ciKgq3GjQ3ivMYzCSDUW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Luigi Rizzo p=ED=B9e v p=E1 02. 02. 2007 v 11:35 -0800: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:37:55PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo p=EDse v p=E1 02. 02. 2007 v 10:32 -0800: > > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:19:05PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > ... > > > > You can't do this. Now, the packages will contain nothing (read: be > > > > useless). > > >=20 > > > at least for the time being it makes no sense to have a > > > package built for this port, for a variety of reasons > > > (code stability, licensing, etc). So i have put in pkg-descr > > > only enough info to cleanup on deinstall. > > > I am not sure it will _ever_ make sense to have this as a package, > > > when the code becomes stable enough it should should probably > > > become part of the kernel. > > >=20 > > > did i misunderstand something ? > >=20 > > Yes. > >=20 > > First, you break the Good Practices of port making. > >=20 > > Second, you deny your users a part of the general functionality of the > > ports collection - ie. packages. Users will be unable to install binary >=20 > As i wrote, the developer of the code being ported (which happens > to be me) has stated a few reasons why at this time he does not=20 > want a package made of this port. This is entirely his right, and > we have the NO_PACKAGE keyword exactly for this reasons. I think the reason stated in the Makefile on NO_PACKAGE line is bogus. Surely you can build it, and move the binaries to another machine running same OSVERSION ...? > > Now there are methods to have the pkg-plist autogenerated. How hard it > > would be? >=20 > As for auto-building the pkg-plist, it is not totally automated, > at least judging from Sec. 7.5 of the handbook, and now i really > don't have more time to spend on this exercise. When the code being Considered asking someone to maintain the port for you? So you could fully devote to the coding. --=20 Pav Lucistnik 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. --=-ciKgq3GjQ3ivMYzCSDUW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Toto je =?UTF-8?Q?digit=C3=A1ln=C4=9B?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_podepsan=E1?= =?UTF-8?Q?_=C4=8D=C3=A1st?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_zpr=E1vy?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFw5cxntdYP8FOsoIRAtefAJ4xVQs5eR3hom83l1+edFM6il8/YgCcCd9S OhbslJiyv09oINHDDxj7IWo= =43XD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ciKgq3GjQ3ivMYzCSDUW--