Looking for a portfile review before submitting (rbldnsd)

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Wed Jun 10 19:35:56 PDT 2009


Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
> On Jun 10, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
> 
>> 1) How do I decide the category, can someone show me a list, and 
>> suggest the correct one for this?  I see bind9 is in "net", perhaps 
>> this should also be in "net"?
> 
> Yes, this would make sense to be in net and then sysutils
> 
>> 2) Do I really need the extract.suffix?  I lean on simpler being better.
> 
> See previous email on distfiles versus distname.
> 
>> 3) How do the permissions I chose look in the destroot phase?
> 
> Why is the program incapable of installing itself from --prefix=?
> 
>> 4) I want ahead and installed some notes and other misc files that 
>> were in the download, should I even bother?  Is this the correct 
>> location to put them?
> 
> Eh, echoing Blair's sentiments I don't think you should bother.

To be clear, I think any doc files should be installed in 
${prefix}/share/doc/${name} to make use of this simple.   Just don't include the 
ui_msg.

Blair



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