Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

Robin Elfrink elfrink at introweb.nl
Thu Sep 8 09:19:11 UTC 2005


Robert Millan wrote:

> Agreed.  I think the "natural" structure of their source is the one they use in
> CVS.  This is what upstream developers use (and the tarballs are just for end
> users to setup their /usr/src tree which sort of works like apt-get).

Hmm, ok, I thought the balls in src where the distribution files.

Well, in that case: If I want to package, for example, ipfwutils (which
contains not much more than the ipfw binary, a manpage and possibly an
example firewall script) I would take the 5.4RELEASE tag from cvs and
create a tarball from it? And use that as my source tarball?


Robin



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