- the PKGNAME hw-probe-1.6-beta is invalid, -beta is using the part of the name that is reserved for a flavour. Should set e.g. PKGNAME=hw-probe-1.6beta
- looks like the default if you just run "hw-probe" is to upload data to an internet server. there should be a warning about this somewhere, at least in pkg/DESCR. On 2020/08/10 06:58, David Dahlberg wrote: > Hi ports@ > > Find attached a port of hw-probe, which is the system configuration > upload tool of linux-hardware.org/bsd-hardware.org. > > A few questions/remarks though: The tool is dual-licenced BSD-4/LGPL- > 2.1+. Do I have to pick the licence files and install them somewhere? > > Second, the tool would like do obtain kmem for dmidecode(8). I > personally would not add any MESSAGE or README mentioning the right > sysctl(2), because (a) the tool works well enough without and I would > not generally recommend setting it (needs securelevel=0) and (b) the > tool yells the appropriate command at you anyways. > > Tested package and tool on several amd64 machines. On the one old i386 > that I still have in use, the package builds and installs fine, but the > tool throws me into ddb - OTOH, a lot of things do that on that machine.
