On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:54:48PM -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> In that case, as a user concerned with freedom, and my ability
> to use OpenBSD in certain embedded systems I'm working on, I'd
> like to request the removal of vim, pine and pico from the ports
> tree. They are no more useful to me than qmail is.
Then look at:
PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM= No
PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM= No
Those programs might have some restrictions on them :-) The rest of
ous like to have a nice easy way to get the software installed when
net connected (one of the nice things about ports)
The main difference is that it's fairly easy to make a port that works
with OpenBSD and the normal filestructure of those programs, well
actually a port of qmail and the rest of dans software is possible.
(As long as it isn't a package), so the following lines has to be in
the makefile (it's there already).
PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM= No
PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP= No
The main problem is that the new installation defaults for the rest of
the packages are so hard to modify and if one modify the installation
location Dan has made clear that there is no or little support from
his side. That the feeling was that it was easyer to install and use
without any port. I guess that is somebody cases to take all the work
with djb software then it might get back, but still it's easyer as
long as it compiles easy on OpenBSD just to download the source and
compile one self. (many of us don't like to get extra stuff in the
root). How to make a distribution is described on Dan's page
http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html, as you look at embeded system you
cernaly gets in troble with qmail as all embedded system I have worked
on so far has something "funny" in compiler, libraries, kernel,
hardware, whatever, that change the behaivor of the software. And then
you can't distribure a qmail binary.
If you look at debian it has included a qmail-src packet that does
patch and changes your local copy of qmail to work as expected (i.e.
not the qmail way).
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