linux-org-libs port downloading xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.src.rpm, not using it

[Boris Samorodov]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:19:17 -0400 Ben Korvemaker wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:50:54PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:

> > We use linux libraries and as to GPL we should have sources together
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > with binaries. It was agreed that the best be can do -- to download
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > sources to those servers which have binary distfiles to
> > distribute. Thus those sources are downloading only when
> > PACKAGE_BUIULDING=YES is defined -- mainly for the FreeBSD package
> > building cluster.
> > 
> > So when a standard user installs linux-xorg-libs from port or from
> > package (s)he doesn't get the sources.

> Make sense.

> > Fedora Core 4 has many xorg-libraries splitted functionally, but has
> > only one big file for the sources. :-(
> > 
> > To avoid the sources fetching you may apply the next patch to
> > ports/Mk/bsd.linux-rpm.mk:

> Is the current situation likely to change? Or will I have to keep

No (look at the undelined text). We should do it to be
GPL-compatible. BTW, there are some ports marked as BROKEN because
they don't fetch GPLed linux sources...

> that patched? (and won't that patch get blown away every time i cvsup?)

Cvsup will overwrite the patch.


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