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

[Pav Lucistnik]

> > > 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.
> > 
> > Of course it makes sense. It allows user to install it using the
> > standard package mechanism. No deal it's just repackaging of vendor
> > tarball. We have several ports taht install documentation in this
> > manner.
> 
> maybe they are stable packages. This one is changing frequently now.
> Anyways, it's my code, it's my choice. You can delete this and
> another thousand ports if you don't like the idea of NO_PACKAGE
> ports.

Maybe it's your code. But I would be really happier if all our ports
here lived up to a certain standard.

> > > 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.
> > 
> > Note that by not having the package for linux-kmod-compat, you also
> > prevent packages for the actual drivers from happening.
> 
> why is that ? the dependency is BUILD_DEPEND, so as long as the build
> machine has it, the drivers can be packaged by individually
> removing the NO_PACKAGE line when it is safe to do so.

I should be more specific - you also prevent packages from happening on
pointyhat. Thus, no pkg_add -r. No CD/DVD sets.

> As for "half finished", this seems a bit of an overstatement.

Perhaps

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
  -- Moliere
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