Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:43:17 +0200 From: Daniel Ryslink <daniel.ryslink@dialtelecom.cz> To: portmgr-feedback@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ACTION REQUIRED - Unstaged Ports being DEPRECATED on June 31st. Message-ID: <53B444B5.8080009@dialtelecom.cz> In-Reply-To: <536E46E0.7030906@FreeBSD.org> References: <536E46E0.7030906@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, I was quite seriously ill for some time, and I have only now noticed these messages. I am the maintainer of the games/gnarr port. Please give me one week to update the port according to your specifications, I will surely get it done, because I don't want it to disappear. I will read through the porter's handbook and do whatever is necessary. The port is very simple, so it should not be a problem Thank you for your understanding. Regards -- Daniel Ryšlink System Administrator Dial Telecom a. s. Křižíkova 36a/237 186 00 Praha 3, Česká Republika Tel.:+420.226204627 daniel.ryslink@dialtelecom.cz ----------------------------------------------- www.dialtelecom.cz Dial Telecom, a.s. Jednoduše se připojte ----------------------------------------------- On 05/10/2014 05:33 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote: > You are receiving this mail as it affects FreeBSD ports that you maintain. > > In September 2013, the Ports framework learned how to Stage ports. > > On June 31st, all unstaged ports will be marked DEPRECATED and have > their MAINTAINER reset. > On August 31st, all unstaged ports will be removed from the ports tree. > > Read on for more details. > > > Staging is when the port installs into the work directory instead of > into /. From here a package can be created without ever installing into > / and often as a user without root. This also gives us abilities to > improve quality of packages and opens up opportunities for sub-packages > in the future. With staging we have had the ability to add in-tree > testing of plists which in the past required a tool such as porttools, > Tinderbox or Poudriere. > > A guide for converting your port to Staging can be found at: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir > > Staging is also mentioned throughout the Porters Handbook. > > You can test your plist with: > > Add DEVELOPER=yes to /etc/make.conf > # make stage > # make check-plist > > However, Poudriere should be used to test staging conversions as it is > much more strict than the in-tree checks currently. It will detect if > something installs outside of the STAGEDIR. Poudriere 3.0.16 (just > released) should be used for this testing, or the latest -devel version. > > Out of the more than 24,000 ports there remains 4,170 ports not yet > staged. Staging is not optional. We must have all staged to progress > with the framework, new features, and automated testing. > > We recently granted blanket approval to committers to stage ports > without maintainer approval and then also blocked updates to unstaged > ports in the hopes that this would force more ports to be converted. > > However with so many ports remaining unstaged at this point it is > unknown if these ports are actually being maintained. > > So we will be DEPRECATING and resetting maintainer on all unstaged ports > on June 31st. > > These ports will be set to EXPIRE on August 31st and will then be > removed from the tree. They will not be restored unless someone stages > them as well. > > This decision was not easy, but if a port is not being staged after > almost a year, we wonder if the ports are actually maintained and > updated for releases and security issues. > > If you have an unstaged port you will begin to receive email > notifications informing you of this until it is staged or maintainer is > reset. > > If you have a port that is unstaged, please stage it. If you do not have > interest in maintaining it anymore then please release it. > > If you are using ports that are not staged please step up and send a PR > today to stage the port and keep it. > > A guide for submitting patches is here: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html > > If you already have PR needing to be committed please let us know and we > will try to get on them ASAP. >
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