From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 15 23:12:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40EDA633 for ; Fri, 15 May 2015 23:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22e.google.com (mail-ie0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B85A11F6 for ; Fri, 15 May 2015 23:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iepk2 with SMTP id k2so133580328iep.3 for ; Fri, 15 May 2015 16:12:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=DCrF6bAOAxvadat0CipLFR7QhxcdkwO7Q6p+uRzm54g=; b=ntUetuqrTeer0Xrp+d3Tzkl+zfAPrCRDQiQfTBm3zAjZj75fiS6LzUZhFfOGJMo8Wb qDO4tzalguvDbJZXXolDAAC+fb4nhzxd7cHdhlZcdVgTeF0SPP7IT4prBduejYxMsxR1 KNZtn9Y8qPdh5ycAMxXSws3gexhKlCh3avUur9uiTRYmc4FOTtal/FVJTGxQCRiCCOTi p64qS5P/l4rtcetFzhhrGrdvmx5n+7A3LWvH1B1wbknrTZ61sw2VJXmNaW1zoyGwLA2c fbdXEsfYco3RhmdnDRPCAckc0DBfpcwNfzdb4pqmJkOv/abNxK5oGbheBHaF68je86KN xhCQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.7.88 with SMTP id 85mr16302197ioh.42.1431731522464; Fri, 15 May 2015 16:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.236.10 with HTTP; Fri, 15 May 2015 16:12:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55560389.10905@morante.net> References: <55560389.10905@morante.net> Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 07:12:02 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: creating a port for bitcoin/secp256k1 From: Ben Woods To: Daniel Morante Cc: freebsd ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 23:12:03 -0000 The security category looks about right to me. I notice the github project doesn't have any releases yet, so you have had to reference a specific commit. Are they planning on tagging releases at some point in the future? Perhaps you could encourage them to :) Regards, Ben On Friday, May 15, 2015, Daniel Morante wrote: > I've made a port for secp256k1 library that is provided seperatly by the > Bitcoin developers. The need was due to some 'altcoins' now requiring it > when building. I plan on submitting it to the ports tree, but I am > unsure of the category to use. > > My first draft uses the 'security' category. > > https://github.com/tuaris/secp256k1-freebsd > > Does that seem fitting? > > -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com