Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:48:49AM +0200, Robin Elfrink wrote:
> > The problem I see there is that we won't package all /sbin binaries from
> > this package, as some of them will probably be provided by other debian
> > package. This also mean we will have to check license issues for all
> > stuff in the tarball instead of only the license of the /sbin binaries
> > we want to provide. This will probably be more true for the bin package.
> 
> The whole tarball is distributed by FreeBSD as part of a FreeBSD
> release, and, to my knowledge, falls under the same license.

Not really.  See the kfreebsd copyright file for example:

  http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/k/kfreebsd-5/kfreebsd-5_5.3-6/kfreebsd-source-5.3.copyright

If this is done in the kernel it could be done somewhere else.  Also, I don't
think the FTP masters appreciate unnecessary waste of archive space (the whole
FreeBSD system is huge compared to the small parts of userland we have to use).

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Robert Millan