[haiku-development] Re: Removing ported code from the repository, replacing with prebuilt packages (was: [haiku-commits] r35705)

  • From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:25:01 -0700

>> Would
>> this be the preferred solution?
>
> If you make sure that all customizations go into it, why not. Note,
> however, that there are several tools in our repository that use ncurses
> (like ftp) - if you remove ncurses, make sure you create optional
> packages from those that have our patches applied (there were several
> changes needed to make them work as intended, like adaption for the
> non-POSIX-compliant realpath() function in FreeBSD).
>
>> I'm also looking at ftp, I assume we're using tnftp [1]?
>
> Nope. It's from FreeBSD. Same for ftpd, telnet, and telnetd. At least
> ncurses, and ftpd seem to be part of our vendor branch (for checking
> out the changes).
>
> Bye,
>   Axel.


Ok, I'll open HaikuPorts trac tickets for each of these and start
working through them, taking care to make sure any Haiku mods get
applied to any updated versions and upstream our changes where
possible.
-scott

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