Re: netcat-openbsd

Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:07:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.review
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 09:29:06PM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> I have just added a slightly hacked port of OpenBSD's netcat to pkgsrc wip.
> 
> This is also common as a debian/ubuntu pkg.
> 
> I had to do some hacking to make it compile on NetBSD and the build is all
> done in the pkg Makefile with the source files living in files/
> 
> I'm not sure if it's better to put this on my own github/google
> code/whatever, but I'd appreciate some feedback.

As a NetBSD developer, you also have the option of preparing tarballs
and uploading them in LOCAL_PORTS on the NetBSD ftp server. I think
that's probably best here. If it's not straightforward, include a
short HOWTO for preparing the tarball in the package Makefile.

Cheers,
 Thomas

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