Saving copies of GPL source code for binary ports

[Kris Kennaway]

Currently we have several ports that exist only to satisfy the GPL
requirements that source code be provided for packages distributed in
binary form.  The ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES macro is now used by the
pointyhat package build system to save a copy of the DISTFILES for
ports that need this.  It is currently not documented in b.p.m but
will be soon.

To save copies of source code for binary ports, you may do the
following:

.if defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING)
DISTFILES+=		List of source files corresponding to your binary DISTFILES
ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES=	yes
.endif

The emulators/linux_base-src-rh-7.3 and emulators/linux_base-src-rh-8
ports are now obsolete and will be marked deprecated in 2 weeks to
give the maintainer time to convert them.

Kris


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