Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:19:11AM +0200, Robin Elfrink wrote:
> 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.

They are =)

I'm just saying that you don't have to use the same layout as their tarballs.
The FreeBSD hackers don't (they use CVS), for example.

> 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?

I don't think it really matters where you get the source from.

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Robert Millan