ports/165270: Ports keeps displaying useless 'License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE'

Simon L. B. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 18 17:40:08 UTC 2012


>Number:         165270
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Ports keeps displaying useless 'License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE'
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 18 17:40:07 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Simon L. B. Nielsen
>Release:        NA
>Organization:
FreeBSD.org
>Environment:
FreeBSD blue.freebsd.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #12 r230640: Sat Jan 28 04:16:08 UTC 2012     simon at blue.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BLUE  amd64
>Description:
[root at blue:apache22] cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
[root at blue:apache22] make fetch-recursive |& grep 'License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE'
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
===>  License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE
[root at blue:apache22] make fetch-recursive | & grep 'License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE' | wc -l
      15

I have not defined any license parameters in make.conf / ports.conf so it should be obvious that I don't care IMO about ports not knowing which license are present.

Unless the user has requested specific licence checks etc (I'm not sure what's possible) the above messages should just be silenced.

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