Re: new package: devel/acl

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.ch@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 08:32:09PM -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On  Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 23:25:36 +0200, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > someone (you know who you are) complained that filesystems/glusterfs
> > doesn't build on Linux. Fair point, so I'll fix that.
> > 
> > On the way to that, I'm working my way through the dependencies of
> > filesystems/glusterfs on Linux, which looks like it is going to mean
> > about 3 new packages of basically Linux-only stuff.
> > 
> > The first is devel/acl - tools to manipulate POSIX ACLs as well as
> > library/headers to write other programs to do so. Hard build dependency
> > for filesystems/glusterfs on Linux.
> > 
> > Package was built & tested on Linux amd64, included binaries work,
> > and glusterfs builds against. This will _not_ build on NetBSD due to
> > too many "All the world is Linux" assumptions (and has been marked
> > so in the Makefile).
> > 
> > This was built on linux-acl (and renamed) which was abandoned in 2006,
> > so I fixed the naming, updated to the last upstream version and tested
> > it.
> > 
> > Comitted to pkgsrc-wip, also patch attached.
> [...]
> 
> I've imported this to pkgsrc (with some very minor adjustments, e.g.,
> the path to the package in buildlink3.mk was "devel", but the
> category was "sysutils", which I went with).

Thanks!

Kind regards,
           Alex.
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