Re: Licence handling: next steps

[Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>]

In article <20090330131219.GA8846%britannica.bec.de@localhost> Joerg wrote:
: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:55:41AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
: > > Given that we likely want to bump the required pkg_install, I am more
: > > than willing to add corresponding evaluation support to pkg_admin.
: > > It is needed for handling in pkg_add anyway.
: > 
: > If source building can use pkg_admin to eval the expressions using the
: > same code as pkg_add, and it appears soonish, that's a huge win.

: We already do the same for processing dependency patterns by calling
: pkg_admin pmatch.

  Yes, that approach sounds good, as it reduces code duplication.

: One big question is whether we want to handle
: migration of ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES to pkg_install.conf automatically or
: not, personally I tend to prefer manual processing and explicit checking
: for this.

  I would say when building from source (i. e. pkgsrc infrastructure
call pkg_admin), pass in the setting of ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES from
mk.conf, if set.  In pkg_admin, fall back to the variable from
pkg_install.conf if unset.  That way, each user can migrate at their
own leisure.

                                        yours,
                                        dillo