Bug in ports howto question
Allan Bowhill
abowhill at blarg.net
Thu Nov 27 11:36:09 PST 2003
On 0, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at bellavista.cz> wrote:
: hm, sysinstall could probably ask for an IP of your smarthost, and
: configure sendmail accordingly.
That would be great, but there are problems with this.
1. If the user chooses another MTA like exim or postfix
2. If the user needs smtp-auth for sendmail he needs to recompile with
SSL a port and cyrus-sasl, which is in ports. In addition to that he
needs special make.conf modifications, and a warning that his
compiled copy of sendmail will become inoperable if he makes world.
I don't know if there would be a good solution to this other than
creating a 3rd party port/package that does it all in one go.
:> If you mean that ports should be accepted by some other mechanism?
:>
:> Yes, definitely.
:
: I disagree. There's already an establish channel for patch
: submissions, why duplicate efforts?
Becuase the current channels are inadequate for some people. Not
sure how many.
: I think there could be a mini-cvs utility, just with a few features
:> defined to allow new ports to be submitted to a different repository,
:> separate from ports (which is already . branch).
:>
:> I also think it would be cool if there were a freebsd third-party
:> developer portal that kept this repository, accounts etc. like
:> SourceForge, but for ports. Maybe call it PortsForge :)
:>
:> That way, maintainers and new contributors could keep an open source
:> base of stuff they committed to the portal, while committers could
:> peruse the portal for new software to carry-over to the ports collection.
:
: this has been discussed on this list, started, and announced here
: during the last two weeks.
Yes. Someone wrote me about this today.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/portrookies/).
I will check it out. It sounds interesting.
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Allan Bowhill
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