linux ports policy

Rong-En Fan rafan at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 14 06:46:05 PST 2006


On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:36:51PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Rong-En Fan <rafan at FreeBSD.org> (from Tue, 12 Dec 2006  
> 21:39:18 +0800):
> 
> We have no policy.
> 
> Now that the official part is done :) the current way things are handled:

Thanks!

[...]
> Comments for this particular case are below.
> 
> >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:45:44PM -0500, Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez 
> >wrote:
> >>On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:07:52 +0000 (UTC)
> >>Rong-En Fan <rafan at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> rafan       2006-12-06 16:07:52 UTC
> >>>
> >>>   FreeBSD ports repository
> >>>
> >>>   Modified files:
> >>>     games                Makefile
> >>>   Added files:
> >>>     games/mtaserver      Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
> >>>     games/mtaserver/files mtad.in pkg-message.in
> >>>   Log:
> >>>   Add mtaserver 0.5, multi Theft Auto: Vice City and GTA3 dedicated
> >>>   server.
> >>>
> >>>   PR:             ports/106399
> >>>   Submitted by:   Alexander Logvinov <ports at logvinov.com>
> >>>
> >>>   Revision  Changes    Path
> >>>   1.1060    +1 -0      ports/games/Makefile
> >>>   1.1       +44 -0     ports/games/mtaserver/Makefile (new)
> >>>   1.1       +6 -0      ports/games/mtaserver/distinfo (new)
> >>>   1.1       +39 -0     ports/games/mtaserver/files/mtad.in (new)
> >>>   1.1       +6 -0      ports/games/mtaserver/files/pkg-message.in (new)
> >>>   1.1       +6 -0      ports/games/mtaserver/pkg-descr (new)
> >>>   1.1       +8 -0      ports/games/mtaserver/pkg-plist (new)
> >>
> >>Hi :)
> >>
> >>It's a linux-base ports and you missed some things
> >>
> >>- Use linux- prefix for port-directory,port-name, port-rcscript and
> >>port-executable file.
> 
> While I would be happy to see a native version of a game, I don't  
> think there will be one from a commercial vendor (the GPLed stuff from  
> id software doesn't count). So I think it is ok to keep it as it is.
> 
> >>- Use ${BRANDELF} if it's necessary
> 
> It is necessary, for every ELF executable (but do *not* brand a lib or  
> plugin). We have Makefile glue for this.

It seems that BRANDELF_FILES automatically install the files for me?



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