Am 11.02.21 um 18:12 schrieb Shawn Webb:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: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.Right, I'm not aiming to recompile the software. I'm looking to simply create a new package.txz with the pre-built artifacts included.
Adding to the previous mail on how a FreeBSD port might be used to install this binary package: Be sure to be allowed to re-package the binary distribution that you want to use in this port. The license may explicitly forbid the distribution of derived works of any kind. Do also set the LICENSE and specifically the LICENSE_PERMS variable in the port's Makefile to indicate whether the FreeBSD package that will be built from this port may be created, distributed, possibly also sold. Regards, STefan
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