[Bf-committers] Blender 2.?? FreeBSD official port

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 08:38:57 CET 2011


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:47 PM, pete larabell <xgl.asyliax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this is more a question for BF itself more than the dev list. :)
>
> Now that Blender has pretty much stabilized and it's likely that a full
> release is coming relatively soon, I'd like to make an updated "port" for
> the FreeBSD ports tree. Currently "# /usr/ports/graphics/blender/make
> install" will make 2.49.
>
> My proposal would be to have the port be located as
> /usr/ports/graphics/blender25
>
> This would solve a lot of issues with myself building with a different
> version of a library than what another user might have, as the ports system
> would allow for automatic fetching and installation of dependencies.
>
> The source tarball needs a MASTER_SITE to be hosted on. Is this something
> that BF would want on their servers or is it ok/better for me to host it
> myself???
>
>
> Cheers
> Peter

When we do releases we should do this but sometimes nobody does it.

Arch linux package spec also complains of this...
# Apparently, the blender guys refuse to release source tarballs for
# intermediate releases that deal mainly with binaries but incorporate tiny
# minor changes from cvs. Since I'm sick and tired of the urges of users that
# look for release numbers only we make a messy PKGBUILD that can checkout cvs
# tags if necessary.

I'm not sure who's responsible for uploading source for releases,
if nobody else wants to I can make a script to upload exported source
tree and upload on release.


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