Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:19:17 -0400 From: Ben Korvemaker <bfkorvem+freebsd@uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-org-libs port downloading xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.src.rpm, not using it Message-ID: <20060630121917.GG46135@caml.cs.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <02829617@serv3.int.kfs.ru> References: <20060629163256.GE46135@caml.cs.uwaterloo.ca> <02829617@serv3.int.kfs.ru>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:50:54PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:32:56 -0400 Ben Korvemaker wrote: > > > It's probably all my fault. [...] > > Seems that the "-p" option for portupgrade did it... Ah. Yep. My fault. I like to build binary packages, not for distribution, but for those occaisional times where it's useful to go back in time to quickly test a previous version when something goes awry. > We use linux libraries and as to GPL we should have sources together > with binaries. It was agreed that the best be can do -- to download > sources to those servers which have binary distfiles to > distribute. Thus those sources are downloading only when > PACKAGE_BUIULDING=YES is defined -- mainly for the FreeBSD package > building cluster. > > So when a standard user installs linux-xorg-libs from port or from > package (s)he doesn't get the sources. Make sense. > Fedora Core 4 has many xorg-libraries splitted functionally, but has > only one big file for the sources. :-( > > To avoid the sources fetching you may apply the next patch to > ports/Mk/bsd.linux-rpm.mk: Is the current situation likely to change? Or will I have to keep that patched? (and won't that patch get blown away every time i cvsup?) > But you should read GPL first. ;-) True. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Korvemaker Eagles may soar, but weasels don't bfkorvem@uwaterloo.ca get sucked into jet engines.
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