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On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Sam Jorna <wraeth@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 02/06/17 23:09, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> The stage3 make.conf shouldn't include this. Now, if you copied your |
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>> make.conf from some other source like a LiveCD then that could explain |
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>> where it came from. The flag was actually invented mainly for things |
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>> like LiveCDs, and these are all built using USE=bindist (we couldn't |
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>> legally distribute them otherwise). |
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> The stage3 make.conf does include USE=bindist by default, as it includes |
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> packages affected by this flag (specifically openssh and openssl). It's |
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> required, as I understand, because the stage3 does distribute binaries |
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> of these packages, thus must have the patent-encumbered parts disabled. |
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Interesting. It looks like we do set that in make.conf by default now |
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- that might be a change from the last time I did an install as I |
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didn't have to remove this in the past. |
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There is no legal requirement to set bindist in the make.conf |
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installed by the stage3. |
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There absolutely is a legal requirement to set bindist in the |
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make.conf used to BUILD the stage3. The two do not need to be the |
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same. |
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Rich |
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