Universal issues

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2008, at 07:06, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> Maybe we could add a 'default_variants +noarch' for 1) to indicate  
>> that?
>> Or set 'supported_archs noarch' which stores this somewhere in the
>> registry (see also below).
> 
> I would be in favor of "supported_archs noarch" and have MacPorts  
> automatically handle it from there.

I still like 'archs any' more than 'archs noarch', but I can live with 
the latter. For reference, the ticket requesting a way of marking ports 
as noarch: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12206>

>> oracle-instant-client does not seem to be open source, so there is no
>> source available at all (which brings up again that we should record
>> licenses in Portfiles).
> 
> Might not be a bad idea.
> 
> Oracle also doesn't want anyone redistributing their files, I think,  
> so we need a way to indicate in the portfile that the files should  
> not be mirrored on distfiles.macports.org. (Manually emailing William  
> doesn't sound like a great solution; he'd have to maintain a manual  
> list which would be better stored in the portfiles themselves.)

Ticket requesting license metadata: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/7493>

Avoiding issues with distributing binaries is the stated motivation, but 
now that we mirror distfiles it's sometimes an issue there as well as 
you noted.

- Josh