From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 16 10:18:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18983 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [198.108.1.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18928; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11947; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id NAA07578; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:18:42 -0400 Message-Id: <199809161718.NAA07578@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: merit radius detail files? To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:18:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980916180621.A25788@klemm.gtn.com> from "Andreas Klemm" at Sep 16, 98 06:06:21 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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