I would like to make the application available through fink, i.e. "fink
install myapp" should work.
My application uses components, which have GPL2, GPL, BSD and MIT licenses.
Looking at the packaging instructions, it seems that I would have to have
one license under which the application is released. If I cannot resolve the
license issues to the satisfaction of the Fink distribution approval
process, I was thinking that I could just release the binary distribution
for now and release the source distribution after verifying the license
stuff.
Thanks.
Saadat.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:03 PM, monipol <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/09/2009, at 21:11, Saadat wrote:
>
>> I am looking for information on how to properly build and deploy a binary
>> package using fink. I've looked at the documentation and the FAQs, but am
>> still unsure of what constitutes a good fink binary package.
>>
>
> Fink provides the infrastructure for building packages from source and
> installing binary packages via Debian-based (dpkg, APT) tools. Usually
> maintainers submit package descriptions -- which contain instructions on how
> to fetch source code, build it, install it -- that are incorporated into
> Fink's distribution after approval.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your request correctly. Do you want to provide a
> binary package that can be installed via Fink but is not present in Fink's
> distributions? If so, you need to write a package description and make sure
> that every dependency is available either in Fink or by your own means. You
> would also need to provide binary packages for every combination of
> architecture (ppc, i386, x86_64) and most possibly operating system version
> (OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6) you want to support. You would also need to give
> users specific instructions on how to install this package of yours because
> it won't be readily available as other packages present in Fink's
> distributions.
>
> Note that if you write a package description and submit it to Fink then it
> might (after validation) be part of Fink itself, relieving you from the
> burden of providing specific instructions on how to install your package and
> making it available to other users.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> monipol
> http://finkers.wordpress.com
>
>
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