From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 21:14:42 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2C8F84E; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC5E215A5; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:14:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [IPv6:2001:aa8:fffb:1::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBB316A6544; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:14:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from e-new.0x20.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s3ALEdxW009049; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:14:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars@e-new.0x20.net) Received: (from lars@localhost) by e-new.0x20.net (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s3ALEdMs008191; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:14:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lars) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:14:39 +0200 From: Lars Engels To: marino@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port, what's next? Message-ID: <20140410211439.GB37706@e-new.0x20.net> References: <5346D5AF.5070905@bsdforen.de> <20140410182839.GB29301@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <5346E4F9.8030205@marino.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5346E4F9.8030205@marino.st> X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 X-Operation-System: FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p4 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: Dominic Fandrey , Baptiste Daroussin , Helmut Schneider , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:14:42 -0000 --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:37:45PM +0200, John Marino wrote: > On 4/10/2014 20:28, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> > >> On 10/04/2014 18:53, Helmut Schneider wrote: > >>> I created a new port, Typo3-LTS. The tgz contains > >>> > >>> - Makefile > >>> - distinfo > >>> - pkg-plist > >>> - pkg-descr > >>> - a diff from www/typo3 > >>> > >>> The file has ~150kB so I assume it's to big for a PR. > >> > >> I assume the bulk of that is the pkg-plist. The largest pkg-plist > >> in the ports tree is 4M. In my opinion huge plists should be dynamical= ly > >> generated, but in your case I'd just I'd just temp-host the file > >> somewhere and file a PR with a link and a checksum. > >> > > Autoplist are harmful! and should be avoided as much as possible, I kno= w python > > and ruby has it but I m really not happy about that > >=20 > > autoplist is dangerous because we have no way to control that what is p= ackage is > > what the maintainer expect to be packaged! therefore we often end up wi= th > > unoticed problems >=20 > Yes, but 6,000 - 20,000 line plists are unwieldy to say the least. > And the danger can be mitigated by the maintainer by reviewing the > internal temporary package list, ideally on multiple platforms. Also > some plists are really hard to make manually if there are many options > or if the plist morphs depending on the combination of options. >=20 > yes, a safety net is removed with a generated plist but it has it's > place. The maintainer just has to be vigilant. >=20 Can't we teach the ports system to handle pkg-plist.gz? --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iKYEARECAGYFAlNHCb9fFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDE3RkMwOEUxNUUwOUJEMjE0ODlFMjA1MDI5 Q0U3NURBQzBGNzY5RjgACgkQKc512sD3afiRZACfX8J5yfSEYKkbqACtajW0LE66 zBsAoLAB7MsNeIi5jeNSUZ/Ur6vW89En =3WI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O--