From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 02:28:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD5E1065673; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:28:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-150-251.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C7116313A; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F31DD0E.70205@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:25:18 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120201 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ohauer@FreeBSD.org References: <4F2F2566.8090703@FreeBSD.org> <4F31A12E.2040405@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F31A12E.2040405@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-apache@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD ports list Subject: Re: Apache/web ports advice in TPH X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:28:06 -0000 On 02/07/2012 14:09, Olli Hauer wrote: > On 2012-02-06 01:57, Doug Barton wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> This section: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-php.html >> >> is out of date, as the very first bit mentions a bunch of old apache >> stuff. I'm happy to help update it if someone can say authoritatively >> what should be there. >> >> I'm also curious about the advice to install stuff into >> /usr/local/www/appname. I vaguely remember that this was deprecated but >> it seems to still be true. This is not an academic question because I'm >> getting ready to add a web port. :) >> >> Finally, the first sentence of 6.12.2 says that WWWDIR is available to >> pkg-plist, but WWWDIR_REL is not. If we're going to encourage ports >> authors to use WWWDIR in the Makefile, shouldn't WWWDIR_REL be added to >> the default PLIST_SUB? >> > > > One of the other mails switched a key in my head to look for deprecated > constructs and I just found some ... (neko, resin2/3) > > Maybe we should also add WWWDIR to hier(7)? > > What do you think about the following diff? > http://people.freebsd.org/~ohauer/diffs/book.sgml.diff That addresses my concerns about that Section, thanks! I didn't search diligently for any other places that may be affected, FYI. Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/