Subject: Re: Contributed binary kits
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+tech-pkg@bjan.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/28/2003 22:11:38
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:10:03AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> > Someone was threatening to make an area on pkgsrc.org for contributed
> > binary kits. I haven't seen any subsequent activity on this front,
> > though. I can have a kit for Slackware 9.1 by tomorrow, and another
> > for FreeBSD 5.2 as soon as they actually release it. I've already
> > done one for FreeBSD 4.9.
> 
> Did that someone mention how that would work together with #11.1 of
> pkgsrc/Packages.txt?

It would be prefaced with a big fat warning telling people that they were
unofficial, unsupported, and not the responsibility of TNF.  

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