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

Ben Korvemaker bfkorvem+freebsd at uwaterloo.ca
Sat Jul 1 16:54:49 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:55:43PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 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...

Ok. I suspected as much, but hoped I might be wrong. It'd be nice if
there was a variable you could set to avoid such downloads, like:

.if !defined(WITHOUT_GPL_SOURCE_FOR_BINARIES)
SRC_DISTFILES=		xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.src.rpm
.endif

but I've not been following enough lists long enough to know if such a
thing would be acceptable.

Odd that it only seems to happen if you do 'portupgrade -F' ahead of
time, but not if you're just upgrading with 'portupgrade -pr'.

> Cvsup will overwrite the patch.

Fair enough.

Ben
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