From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 15:14:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E4C1065670 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984FC8FC25 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0697B5C2B for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:27:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77B375C29 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:27:16 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F1C26F8.4020301@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:10:48 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4F1C0B6B.2040106@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4F1C155A.3020408@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What is the best way to _not_ install licenses? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:46 -0000 On 01/23/12 00:54, Chris Rees wrote: > On 22 January 2012 13:55, Da Rock > wrote: >> On 01/22/12 23:44, Chris Rees wrote: >>> On 22 January 2012 13:13, Da Rock >>> wrote: >>>> I'm back to resolve some issues with my new port ports/164113. >>>> >>>> I have to not install license as per instructions in the porters handbook >>>> (which I wasn't aware it was doing). What is the best way to achieve >>>> this? >>> Huh? Why don't you want to install the licence? >> According to the handbook there is enough copies to go around and the system >> doesn't need to be overloaded with license copies (GPL only). Meh... I'll >> comply. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-misc.html > Ah, that refers to people sticking the GPL in to pkg-descr. That probably could be clearer... but if it complains about the GPL file not being removed from the system on deinstall, what then? It specifically mentions plist as well. So what is it supposed to do? Is there another linux port that shows how it should be handled correctly that I could check out?