Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:50:10 -0800 (PST) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi "the Wraith" Asami) To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup and Fetch Message-ID: <199903290950.BAA31713@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990328182548.A86409@rucus.ru.ac.za> (message from Neil Blakey-Milner on Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:25:49 %2B0000) References: <199903261302.IAA19553@istari.home.net> <199903261348.FAA18790@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327152150.A57118@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903271329.FAA22229@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327165750.A68075@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903280511.VAA01750@bubble.didi.com> <19990328182548.A86409@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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* From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
* Well, let me just submit a PR with the patches in.
Just saw it. I think it's generally a good solution to a very
important problem.
* The only query I have about them is whether people would prefer that
* for, say, LICENSE=COPYRIGHT check ${WRKSRC}/${LICENSE} - since I'd imagine
* one would only really use the license variable if it's one of the default
* licenses, or a file somewhere in ${WRKSRC}.
I think it's fundamentally flawed to try to dig something out of
${WRKSRC}. LICENSE files (if it exists) should be installed somewhere
alongside the ports' own docs, that's why I suggested you refer to the
installed location or a standard template (BSD/GPL/etc.). Also,
depending on something in ${WRKSRC} will break the "package-noinstall"
target.
I generally don't like the idea of keeping a copy of the license in
the ports tree. What's in a distfile shouldn't be in our
repository. If the port has a really funky license, a warning about
it can be put in pkg/DESCR as that's where people look first.
* Also, I'm using -n to pkg_install, since -l and -L are being used by
* other pkg_*.
I don't mind either way. That's eventually Jordan's call anyway. :)
Satoshi
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