Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 06:45:49 -0500 From: Timothy J.Warren <fbsdports@opensolutionsvt.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Proposed port: docker. First time, is this all correct? Message-ID: <20030317064549.0799613e.fbsdports@opensolutionsvt.com>
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First of all, I apologize if I'm asking this in the wrong place. My questions are, I believe, in accordance with the charter, but I haven't posted here before, and I've only performed a cursory glance at the archives. That being said, I have just finished a FreeBSD port of "docker", a utility that creates a dockable system tray. This is the first application I have ported (for any system), and I have a few questions before I officially submit the port. First of all, I did not write the original code. It is released under the GPL, so I don't see a licensing issue. However, should I contact the author and request permission to port the application? I don't see any reasonable developer denying such a request, but I'm not sure if it's the proper or expected thing to do. Secondly, I'm not 100% sure that the port is correct. portlint reports no errors, all is ok. However, when attempting to install the port from a package (make install, make package, make deinstall, pkg_add pkgname) I get errors related to library dependencies: pkg_add: could not find package libiconv-1.8_2 ! pkg_add: could not find package glib-2.2.1 ! pkg_add: could not find package gettext-0.11.5_1 ! Is this due to missing information in the packing list? The port only creates one file, an executable, so that is all I have in the packing list. Do I need to include the packages dependencies in the packing list as well? This seems counter-intuitive, but I'm not ready to rule it out. Lastly, the binary file has not been stripped. The porting instructions seem to indicate that the install program will automatically strip the executable. Is this true? The Makefile doesn't specify a *-install section at all, but I also don't see that one is necessarily required. Do I need to add a post-install target? Do I even need to worry about the binary not being stripped? Thanks! I appreciate the help! Timothy J. Warren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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