Alexander Leidinger ha scritto:
To achieve this goal we have 2 possibilities, either we install everything into LINUXBASE and install a wrapper in LOCALBASE, or we install everything in a safe location in LOCALBASE. The first part requires that the maintainers of the linux program play some tricks in their port (plist and/or Makfile). If they fail to do this, it increases the load of portmgr from time to time (build failures on the build cluster). In the second case (install into a safe place in LOCALBASE), portmgr is out of the loop, as if something goes wrong, the port maintainer and/or emulation@ is asked for help, as it is a bug of the port.
I admit that probably I'm using only one or two linux applications and I've never created a linux port, but I think the right way is the former possibility, the latter seems a hack to me. It could be harder for unexperienced maintainers, but once we defined the correct way to add a wrapper in LOCALBASE (and put it in the porter's handbook), I think the work for maintainers/committers should be quite easy. What are the other issues that make the former solution so difficult?
-- Alex Dupre _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
