Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:06:21 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merit radius detail files? Message-ID: <19980916180621.A25788@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199809161301.JAA06441@ohm.merit.edu>; from William Bulley on Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:01:50AM -0400 References: <19980915222329.A19161@klemm.gtn.com> <199809161301.JAA06441@ohm.merit.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 09:01:50AM -0400, William Bulley wrote: > According to Andreas Klemm: > > > > What about asking the port maintainer to update the port or even > > better to send diffs after doing the update yourself ? > > 1) I don't know who the "port maintainer" is... In the ports directory there is a Makefile. Within the Makefile there is a line MAINTAINER= e-mail-address > 2) I'm not certain what "updating the port" means and if that would > be considered (by the FreeBSD folks) as risking copyright issues Ports collection is a Berkeley make Macro mechanism. A "make all install" does everything from fetching from internet, extract source in workdir, doing local changes via patches, compiling, installing ... everything automatically. See http://www.freebsd.org/ports > 3) there are no diffs, each release is self-contained and stands > by itself, once we release, the old version is considered obsolete But this release has a certain name and needs perhaps other local diffs to make it into /usr/local ... and it has perhaps other installed files, so the ports PLIST file needs certainly an update, which is needed to install and remove ported software cleanly. > If there are no legal entanglements (I'm not a lawyer!), then I > think having the FreeBSD "port" reference our FTP site would be > fine. I think the only problem is in having the FreeBSD CD-ROM > or ports collection also include (and hence distribute) our code. Then the port gets a variable NO_CDROM in the Makefile .... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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