Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

[Robin Elfrink]

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Hi,


While trying to find a good way to package the FreeBSD ipfw binaries,
and keeping the sources in sync with upstream FreeBSD sources, I came up
with the following.

I took the sources for /sbin binaries from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/src/, and
built a package around it. This is done the same way I found in the
apache package.

- From the sbin sources several tools can be built, for which we now have
seperate packages (such as kldutils) or, something that has to change
anyway, binary-source packages such as kfreebsd-utils.

So I now have one 'big' source package that builds binary packages
atacontrol and kldutils. From the same source packages such as mount and
net-tools (ifconfig, route) should be able to build, provided the needed
patches are available.

My package can be found at
http://brouwen.nl/~robin/software/debian/pool/main/f/freebsd-sbin/.

I would appreciate any feedback on this idea, as well as any feedback on
my (lack of) packaging skills.



Robin
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