Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:20:19 +0530 From: wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IA==?= =?utf-8?B?4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=) To: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Ports using SCM repositories as source instead of distfiles Message-ID: <87fxkxjywk.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
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Hi all,
I'm to proposing an enhancement to existing FreeBSD ports system. I
think it'll be great if ports can use SCM (source code management)
repositories like CVS, Subversion, Git, etc. as their sources instead of
distfiles. Following are some of the {dis,}advantages of this approach:
* Anyone interested in tracking the development branch of any project
can do so with installation/deinstallation of the project integrated
in the ports management system. e.g. anyone interested in trying out
GNU Emacs CVS version, can simply use editors/emacs-cvs
(not-implemented atm), which will checkout from the Emacs's CVS
repository and build and install the port with all installed files
recorded in 'plist' of the port. And if anyone wants to uninstall the
Emacs CVS port, {s,}he can simply deinstall it in their preferred
ports/package way.
* ATM, development versions of ports are packaged as snapshots, and
maintainer has to keep updating ports snapshots. And sometimes,
it is not possible for maintainer (due to lack of time and other
issues) to update snapshots timely. So going proposed way can ease the
work for them, and beneficial for users who are interested in latest
bits.
* As far as PR related to such ports are concerned I think one should
directly submit them to the upstream rather than maintainer, unless
that PR has anything to do with its packaging, in which case it should
be submitted to FreeBSD PR system.
* I've not played (or worked) with dynamic packaging lists on FreeBSD,
so I'm not sure if it is possible to properly track all installed
files dynamically, e.g. if a new commit in the upstream causes 3 new
files to be installed, then is it possible for FreeBSD ports
management system to include those 3 files also in the packing list,
in the next installation of the port, hmm...?
BtW, I've implemented a basic proof-of-concept and hacked a port
audio/scrobby (for scrobby[1] application, not submitted to PR system
yet) based on proof-of-concept. The shar can be downloaded from following U=
RL:
http://wahjava.googlepages.com/scm-ports.shar
(md5: 7f8392e7c9e31fe5842279e1730a2051, size: 4710 bytes)
Some existing tools like patchtool also needs to be modified which rely
for the presence of 'distinfo' file in the port directory, which in this
case will never be present.
References:
[1] - http://unkart.ovh.org/scrobby/
Thanks for trying it.
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Ashish Shukla
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