Hi all, > Am 11.02.2021 um 18:03 schrieb Chris <portmas...@bsdforge.com>: > > On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: >> Hey all, >> The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package >> tarball that you can use `pkg add` on. I'm in a position where I'd >> like to create a port of the package so that I can automate certain >> tasks. > Reverse engineer a package? I think that will violate the NDA you > signed. ;-) > > Really. Unless the package is simply a wrapper of a binary blob. You'll > need to *build* the port, as part of the package creation process. > That is, unless I've *completely* misunderstood your intent here. :-)
The binary package is provided by the software manufacturer without source code. Still one might want to have a port available so one can put the port in poudriere and have it available in one's own package repo. We have ports for proprietary RAID management blobs, we used to have a port for flash, etc. etc. HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Kaiserallee 13a 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de i...@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Egeling, Daniel Lienert, Fabian Stein
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