svn commit: r464889 - in head/sysutils/cpupdate: . files

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:02:47PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On 20.03.2018 15:47, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:27:19AM +0000, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> >> Author: eugen
> >> Date: Sun Mar 18 10:27:19 2018
> >> New Revision: 464889
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/464889
> >>
> >> Log:
> >>   sysutils/cpupdate: - correct ONLY_FOR_ARCHS_REASON message;
> >>   
> >>   - be more specific in the COMMENT and pkg-descr: mention x86-centricity;
> >>   
> >>   - in addition to CPM option, add INTEL convinience option to ease
> > 
> > I am not sure I understand why those are non default options (and why
> > they are options at all, in fact) as they both seem to have important
> > content that people will need.
>  
> All installed files must be added to pkg-plist and therefore included into the package.
> However, platomav/CPUMicrocodes is really distinct project and its growth is not syncronized with cpupdate.

Then maybe this one should be in its own port?

> More serious problem may steam from copyright issues: Intel's license allows
> end users to utilize published CPU microcodes but I do not know if FreeBSD project
> has special permission to package and redistribute Intel's microcode files.
> 
> Intel's general licence does not permit redistribution and
> I do not want to limit redistribution of cpupdate package itself
> due to copyrighted blobs added to the package.

I do not know about licensing issues.  My point is that providing a
package without the microcodes does not seem to make a lot of sense to
me.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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