From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 11:36:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04CE016A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.blarg.net (zoot.blarg.net [206.124.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40FA43FBF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:36:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abowhill@blarg.net) Received: from kosmos.my.net (12-230-212-176.client.attbi.com [12.230.212.176]) by mail.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3377D33A12; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from kosmos.my.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kosmos.my.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAR7bXj1059380; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:37:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos@kosmos.my.net) Received: (from kosmos@localhost) by kosmos.my.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAR7bXhO059379; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:37:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:37:33 -0800 From: Allan Bowhill To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031127073733.GB58872@kosmos.my.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Allan Bowhill References: <20031027223648.GC1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20031028000708.GA52155@kosmos.mynet> <20031028004319.GF1004@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20031125072702.GG340@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20031125064404.GA38625@kosmos.my.net> <20031125193010.GB67289@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20031125094426.GA39119@kosmos.my.net> <20031126103714.GT340@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20031126083957.GA56061@kosmos.my.net> <20031127134740.GV340@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031127134740.GV340@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-URL: http://www.blarg.net/~abowhill/ cc: Allan Bowhill Subject: Re: Bug in ports howto question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:36:09 -0000 On 0, Roman Neuhauser wrote: : hm, sysinstall could probably ask for an IP of your smarthost, and : configure sendmail accordingly. That would be great, but there are problems with this. 1. If the user chooses another MTA like exim or postfix 2. If the user needs smtp-auth for sendmail he needs to recompile with SSL a port and cyrus-sasl, which is in ports. In addition to that he needs special make.conf modifications, and a warning that his compiled copy of sendmail will become inoperable if he makes world. I don't know if there would be a good solution to this other than creating a 3rd party port/package that does it all in one go. :> If you mean that ports should be accepted by some other mechanism? :> :> Yes, definitely. : : I disagree. There's already an establish channel for patch : submissions, why duplicate efforts? Becuase the current channels are inadequate for some people. Not sure how many. : I think there could be a mini-cvs utility, just with a few features :> defined to allow new ports to be submitted to a different repository, :> separate from ports (which is already . branch). :> :> I also think it would be cool if there were a freebsd third-party :> developer portal that kept this repository, accounts etc. like :> SourceForge, but for ports. Maybe call it PortsForge :) :> :> That way, maintainers and new contributors could keep an open source :> base of stuff they committed to the portal, while committers could :> peruse the portal for new software to carry-over to the ports collection. : : this has been discussed on this list, started, and announced here : during the last two weeks. Yes. Someone wrote me about this today. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/portrookies/). I will check it out. It sounds interesting. -- Allan Bowhill abowhill@blarg.net The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. -- Glaser and Way