rev-upgrade to determine if binary is distributable

Bradley Giesbrecht pixilla at macports.org
Wed Jun 6 16:23:50 PDT 2012


On Jun 6, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Would it make sense that while rev-upgrade was testing links it could collect licenses and make a determination if a port is distributable?
>> 
>> Example: djvulibre is not distributable do to an rdep on ImageMagick though I fail to see where anything djvulibre installs is linked to anything ImageMagick installs.
> 
> I'd modify the distributable script to do that (server-oriented) rather than rev-upgrade (client-oriented).

Yep. Rev-upgrade triggered the idea get port licenses based on linked files rather then port deps. The distributable script is a better place to perform the test.
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