Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:18:42 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merit radius detail files? Message-ID: <199809161718.NAA07578@ohm.merit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980916180621.A25788@klemm.gtn.com> from "Andreas Klemm" at Sep 16, 98 06:06:21 pm
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According to Andreas Klemm: > > > 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 Thanks. > > 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 Yep, I know that. But if the "port" is wrong, the "port maintainer in item #1 above would need to "update the port" -- it is this part that I am unfamiliar with. One could postulate many different ways to "update the port" theoretically... :-) > > 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. Each release of the Merit AAA Server has "a name" -- more properly a version number. It needs no local diffs -- it compiles/links/runs just fine on FreeBSD. It comes self-contained with all the files it needs. > Then the port gets a variable > NO_CDROM > in the Makefile .... Then that is something for the "ports maintainer" to add to the diffs area. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network, Inc. Email: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C Phone: (734) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (734) 647-3185 [ Reuters, London, February 29, 1998: Scientists have announced discovering ] [ a meteorite which will strike the earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX ] [ coders expressed relief for being spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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