Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:57:50 +0000 From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> To: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Linux ports tutorial? WPS Office Message-ID: <CALM2mEkGFkwWEoeopgXy_XrfNRPmASt%2Bbkj_owKibU_dD9eS2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a7d7de70-c877-2cca-2994-e000df477e3e@FreeBSD.org> References: <73820d5ad4436c73fe47d0b35a112cf5@udns.ultimatedns.net> <2ca3551a-db23-1c17-2035-c67494f8f542@FreeBSD.org> <CALM2mEnXpB5swZe2=UShtn8-KSbCUM97xCJpwA0YAsLnmhpzgg@mail.gmail.com> <a7d7de70-c877-2cca-2994-e000df477e3e@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Dec 14, 2017, 22:15 Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 12/13/17 22:31, blubee blubeeme wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Hello; >> >> >> On 13/12/2017 21:11, Chris H wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:56:24 -0500 "Pedro Giffuni" <pfg@FreeBSD.org> >>> <pfg@FreeBSD.org> said >>> >>> On 12/10/17 14:55, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >>>> > 11.12.2017 2:22, Pedro Giffuni =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >>>> >> Hello guys; >>>> >> >>>> >> I would like to attempt a port for WPS Office (AKA Kingsoft Office)= : >>>> >> >>>> >> http://wps-community.org/ >>>> >> >>>> >> Are there guidelines for linux ports? I couldn't find much details >>>> in the >>>> > handbook. >>>> >> >>>> >> In particular, how do you handle when the pkg-plist is different fo= r >>>> i386 >>>> > and amd64? >>>> >> >>>> >> Some ports use pkg-plist.${ARCH} but I don't know how those work. >>>> > Just have "USES=3Dlinux", "USE_LINUX_RPM=3Dyes" and make these two f= iles >>>> > pkg-plist.i386 and pkg-plist.amd64 >>>> > and they are used automatically. Or you could duplicate a magic from >>>> > /ports/Mk/Uses/linux.mk in your Makefile: >>>> > >>>> > PLIST?=3D ${PKGDIR}/pkg-plist.${LINUX_ARCH:S/x86_64/amd64/} >>>> > >>>> > For details, read Porter's Handbook: >>>> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ >>>> > >>>> >>>> The handbook has no information about "USE_LINUX_RPM=3Dyes". >>>> If I set that it appears the ports framework will ignore MASTER_SITES. >>>> >>>> Should I dig into the MK framework to see how to change the repository >>>> or should I use the .tar.xz distribution instead? :(. >>>> >>> I'm not sure. But would having a look at the way >>> emulators/linux_base-c(6|7) >>> provide some clues? >>> >>> >> Not really but I think I found something in Mk/Uses/linux.mk: >> >> For the case of USE_LINUX_RPM it is supposed to not do anything when >> MASTER_SITES is defined but it is somewhat messy, and somehow it always >> uses ${MASTER_SITE_CENTOS_LINUX}. Any port that uses RPM but not the Cen= tos >> repositories? >> >> Just a thought, and hope it helps! >>> >>> Thanks, I just have to keep digging :(. >> >> Pedro. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > The linux packaging is okay but I'd recommend learning how the porting > process and not just wrapping up a linux binary in FreeBSD. > > > Well ... of course if I had the source code I would not be dealing RPMs > for the linuxulator. > > Software can be free but not include source code. It can still be > desirable for FreeBSD. > > > The main reason for that is you can port your way into a corner that > relies on very Linux specific stuff that there's just no solution for yet > nor will there be one unless you port the entire Linux kernel to FreeBSD. > > > Which is why we have a linuxulator. > > > Pedro. > What's in these tar.gz files here: http://wps-community.org/downloads >
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