cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 08:55:29PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo píse v pá 02. 02. 2007 v 11:35 -0800:
...
> > As i wrote, the developer of the code being ported (which happens
> > to be me) has stated a few reasons why at this time he does not 
> > want a package made of this port. This is entirely his right, and
> > we have the NO_PACKAGE keyword exactly for this reasons.
> 
> I think the reason stated in the Makefile on NO_PACKAGE line is bogus.

You are right. Fixed now.

> Surely you can build it, and move the binaries to another machine
> running same OSVERSION ...?

Pardon me but have you read what this thing does ?
This is the do-build target from the Makefile:

    do-build:       # nothing to build here, just a chance to update the source.

there are no binaries built, just a tarball extracted and copied to the
destination directory, with no extra files.
If you make a package you just create a reformatted tarball with
the same content of the original distribution. Makes no sense.
you can just as easily download the original.

Now if you want to make packages for the children ports (gspca.ko,
qc511.ko and so on) that's another story and for those the pkg-plist
is fully compliant, i am just unclear on the licensing issues
(probably all it takes is add in the package a reference to the sources)
and again, i think the modules are too experimental now to be
distributed as binaries.

> > > Now there are methods to have the pkg-plist autogenerated. How hard it
> > > would be?
> > 
> > As for auto-building the pkg-plist, it is not totally automated,
> > at least judging from Sec. 7.5 of the handbook, and now i really
> > don't have more time to spend on this exercise.  When the code being
> 
> Considered asking someone to maintain the port for you? So you could
> fully devote to the coding.

I did, in the commit log:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat/Makefile

    And finally - i have almost spent more time to prepare the port
    (including discussing choices, location and studying the ports
    infrastructure) than writing the linux emulation code. If some of
    the ports guru wants to help cleaning up mistakes that i may have
    made, i''l be grateful (but please don't set up a static pkg-plist,
    for the reasons above).

cheers
luigi