On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/24 Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> A build recipe would still be useful in this case since we would >> need to do stuff like unpacking the binary package and republishing >> it to a pkg repository. > > The important thing to remember is that *a* package is better than *no > package*. Sometimes users won't have a good build recipe. Those > packages shouldn't be excluded from availability simply because there > is not an easily-reproduceable build recipe. >
Not really in the context of a repository. If a person doesn't have proper build instructions but has magically created a binary, then *too many questions* arise around it to be included in a repo. If the person has build instructions but not in a form suitable for the build setup that will be decided for contrib, then some other contributor familiar with the setup helps the person create the build recipe. -Shiv _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
