Installing a different PORTVERSION based on OSVERSION?
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From: Garrett Cooper on 15 Feb 2010 20:01 On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Darren Pilgrim <freebsd(a)bitfreak.org> wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> Vendor provided binaries are a fun ball of wax to deal with >> because you need to have all dependencies come from the same generic >> pool as the package [/ port] itself, as any >> This sounds trivial, but it requires changes to pkg_add (for >> fetching / installing a particular revision of the code, as well as >> `slotting' the packages themselves), determining elf-version, ld >> modifications, as well as a few other things. It's been implemented at >> my work [Ironport] from what I've been told, but 1) I'm not sure how >> complete it is, 2) I'm not sure how tested it is, and 3) it hasn't >> been reviewed yet and I'm not sure how much would be put back in the >> community at large to be honest... > > Or you can take the vendor's approach and make a static binary with all the > dependencies (i.e., libraries) compiled in. Yes, but that would require some thinking ahead and willingness to distribute bloated binaries ;)... some relationships have been burned because of acquisitions and the former vendor and licensing agreements don't permit some folks to work with others due to bad blood :\... Cheers, -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports(a)freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe(a)freebsd.org" |