Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:27:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: An idea about forbidden ports Message-ID: <20051025002406.M911@odysseus.silby.com>
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I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not, but I'm going to throw this idea out there in hopes that it might be of some use. I was thinking how this error message occurs: podysseus# pkg_add -r vmware3 Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-current/Latest/vmware3.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) But really, we do have vmware3, it's just not packaged due to it being marked FORBIDDEN. So, would it be a useful idea to include dummy packages for FORBIDDEN programs so that people know that they exist? When you did pkg_add -r vmware3 have it grab a dummy package that just has a shell script that tells the person why the package doesn't exist, suggest how to go about installing that port, and return an error value so that the package isn't successfully installed. This would be of immense help once we grow some sort of package manager system, as it would allow everything to be listed. It might be a problem with portupgrade -P, though. Just a thought, Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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