Yup. If anyone disputes the "supply source + patches rather than patched sources", it's a formal requirment of many standard licenses.
Might want to tweak "Upload the tarball to a site where fink can download it." statement to clarify that it's a *public* site for other users (or their finks) not just in-house for Maintainer himself. And need a "from" or some other preposition, otherwise English majors everywhere will surely smite you. In 3.8, should it mor clearly specify "...but not to update self or other things that could be packaged by normal fink processes"? I could envision "fink install foo-pm" postinst doing "cpan update Foo" or somesuch. Maybe just preface with "In limited situations" and/or a "(must be cleared with -core)"? dan On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:22:05 -0700, "David R. Morrison" wrote: Sounds good to me. > > -- Dave > > > On Apr 20, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > 3.7 Source Policy > > > Sources should normally be downloaded from the location(s) that the > > upstream developer(s) use, and any modifications for Fink should be done > > through the use of a PatchFile and/or a PatchScript. Do not make changes > > manually and use a changed source archive as a Source in your Fink > > packaging. > > > If a VCS checkout (e.g. from git or svn) is to be used, e.g. because a > > project doesn't do formal releases, or a fix for a particular issue has > > been added between releases of a package, an acceptable source can be > > generated via the following method: > > > Check out the package, preferably at a definite revision of the VCS. > > Make an archive from the VCS checkout (e.g. zip, tar, tar.gz, or tar.bz2). > > Include the VCS revision in the archive name, e.g. foo-0svn1234.tar.gz > > for a package that doesn't make releases, or bar-1.2.3+svn4567.tar.bz2 > > for a Fink package which is between upstream releases. > > > Upload the tarball to a site where fink can download it. > > Also, put the commands that you ran to generate the source tarball in > > the DescPackaging field. > > > > 3.8 File Download Policy > > > Packages are not to download any files during the unpack, patch, > > compile, install, or build phases of the build process. Any large > > patches (i.e. larger than can be accommodated conveniently in a > > PatchFile) that need to be applied should set up as additional Sources > > in accordance with the Source Policy. > > > Packages may download data after they have been installed on the system > > in a PostInstScript. > > > > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > > Fink User Liaison > > http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > > iEYEARECAAYFAk2vMRYACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9ZpwCghdf/40VXT4NHzuFFJ7vfuZL6 > > RwQAn3ztJ620cNTrxhYh4LZeyJi/321E > > =OyA+ > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and > improve > application availability and disaster protection. Learn > more about boosting > the value of server virtualization. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-devel mailing list > > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > List archive: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > > Subscription management: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and > improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more > about boosting the value of server virtualization. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
