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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:31:51 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20070202203151.GA13865@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200702021808.l12I8KBY073193@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200702021808.l12I8KBY073193@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 06:08:20PM +0000, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> luigi       2007-02-02 18:08:20 UTC
>=20
>   FreeBSD ports repository
>=20
>   Added files:
>     devel/linux-kmod-compat Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist=20
>   Log:
>   Add new port for linux-kmod-compat - emulation layer to build
>   linux device drivers as FreeBSD kld modules. Details at
>  =20
>           http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html
>  =20
>   Two ports for webcam drivers that use this package are coming in
>   a matter of minutes.
>  =20
>   NOTES:
>   + This is only for 6.x and 7.x, no support planned for earlier versions.
>   + At the moment only i386 but have patches for 64-bit architectures
>     that should be committed soon.
>   + This port installs a file in /usr/share/mk . After some discussion
>     on the ports list this seems, to be the most reasonable thing to do.
>     portlint complains about it.

By "discussion" you apparently mean "I said how I want to do it, then
did it even after I was told to do it differently".

>   And finally - i have almost spent more time to prepare the port
>   (including discussing choices, location and studying the ports
>   infrastructure) than writing the linux emulation code. If some of
>   the ports guru wants to help cleaning up mistakes that i may have
>   made, i''l be grateful (but please don't set up a static pkg-plist,
>   for the reasons above).

FYI, it's your own responsibility to clean up your mistakes (including
the one above).  Yes, I will hold you to this.

Kris

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