> > > Pardon me but have you read what this thing does ? > > > This is the do-build target from the Makefile: > > > > > > do-build: # nothing to build here, just a chance to update the > > > source. > > > > > > there are no binaries built, just a tarball extracted and copied to the > > > destination directory, with no extra files. > > > If you make a package you just create a reformatted tarball with > > > the same content of the original distribution. Makes no sense. > > > you can just as easily download the original. > > > > Of course it makes sense. It allows user to install it using the > > standard package mechanism. No deal it's just repackaging of vendor > > tarball. We have several ports taht install documentation in this > > manner. > > maybe they are stable packages. This one is changing frequently now. > Anyways, it's my code, it's my choice. You can delete this and > another thousand ports if you don't like the idea of NO_PACKAGE > ports.
Maybe it's your code. But I would be really happier if all our ports
here lived up to a certain standard.
> > > Now if you want to make packages for the children ports (gspca.ko,
> > > qc511.ko and so on) that's another story and for those the pkg-plist
> > > is fully compliant, i am just unclear on the licensing issues
> > > (probably all it takes is add in the package a reference to the sources)
> > > and again, i think the modules are too experimental now to be
> > > distributed as binaries.
> >
> > Note that by not having the package for linux-kmod-compat, you also
> > prevent packages for the actual drivers from happening.
>
> why is that ? the dependency is BUILD_DEPEND, so as long as the build
> machine has it, the drivers can be packaged by individually
> removing the NO_PACKAGE line when it is safe to do so.
I should be more specific - you also prevent packages from happening on
pointyhat. Thus, no pkg_add -r. No CD/DVD sets.
> As for "half finished", this seems a bit of an overstatement.
Perhaps
--
Pav Lucistnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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