Ideas for packaging FreeBSD binaries

Jett Tayer jett at sycorax.ath.cx
Fri Sep 16 13:13:37 UTC 2005


>>
> 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.
>
> And moreover a binary in /sbin in FreeBSD could be placed in /bin  
> in Debian and vice-versa.
>
Let us leave /sbin binaries in FreeBSD to reside in /sbin in Debian  
for compatibility reasons so we as FreeBSD users will go easy dealing  
with GNU/kFreeBSD. You know, we got used to it.


> What the others thing about my proposal?
>
> Byen
> Aurelien
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