Hi!
I (still) have very little experience with FreeBSD, so I assume
you are right. But there was something I installed on my test FreeBSD
installation (unfortunately, I can't remember what was it) that, the
first time I tried to install, it asked me to download some stuff
(that could not be distributed by the FreeBSD guys) and place it on
some folder. So I did, and the second time I tried to install that
port, it all installed as it should. That's why I purposed it, I
guessed it was relatively common. But again, I have little experience
with FreeBSD.
Yours
Miguel Arroz
On 2007/04/11, at 23:29, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
On 12/04/2007, at 8:21 AM, Miguel Arroz wrote:
That's not possible! You cannot redistribute WO libs. But you
could ask the user to generate the .tgz with the script made by
Aurelien and put it somewhere on the file system, and the ports
installer would pick that up.
The FreeBSD ports system doesn't work that way. A port and a
package are two different things. A package is (as you describe) a
self contained 'installer'. A port is simply a set of scripts and
patches which install files into the correct locations, adjust
permissions, install dependencies, etc. A port will pick up the
install files from a public ftp/http site (such as a location from
Apple's site) or will prompt the user to download the files to the
correct place before proceeding (as has been the case for Java
until now due to the need to agree to Sun's license).
Ari Maniatis
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