Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:14:49 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merit radius detail files? Message-ID: <19980916171449.B6694@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <199809161718.NAA07578@ohm.merit.edu>; from William Bulley on Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 01:18:42PM -0400 References: <19980916180621.A25788@klemm.gtn.com> <199809161718.NAA07578@ohm.merit.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 01:18:42PM -0400, William Bulley wrote: > 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. The local diffs are not so much you software itself, it is just where the software installs. The default on FreeBSD is /usr/local. But a person might choose /opt. He can set that global. The patches in the port basicly take care of changing the Makefile of your software and any source files which maybe have hard coded file names. A patch might also fix compile warnings or errors, but that depends on the software. > > > 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 -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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