From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 10:24:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74ACF106566B for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:24:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349668FC12 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:24:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so2430140gxk.13 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:24:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BPWK7a9dITR1WJxbDwgHGG+fn5/V4II1hMh+JNOi8Qc=; b=osF3devwBJ5JUBUpIr+v+bTnQ6/vzv3OFP8pH9RVy38fbk3AYFsQXfydLb1Ks9nzbK GJBKhSMM+ldasjgfSzwACUcLvlvcSUU/qbiIhxY/dwICVZtDKnAhhU3UbxkLRNrtS3tK 1PHiQPdI74+E0vt55itxYLN+otzqMT7heidKU= Received: by 10.236.79.166 with SMTP id i26mr5857963yhe.125.1313749491441; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:24:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.182.77 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:24:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <81610638@h30.sp.ipt.ru> From: Chris Rees Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:24:21 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: BnaAttSJdaxKotu-rPyJPtKt9x8 Message-ID: To: Helmut Schneider Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big patches 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: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:24:52 -0000 On 19 August 2011 11:18, Helmut Schneider wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Helmut Schneider wrote: >> >> > I've been told that dynamic pkg-plists are bad or at least should be >> > avoided=B4at most costs. >> >> > Now, all my patches for Typo3 seem blocked by a "SPAM Filter" or at >> > least take 2 days until I get reply. See PR159878-81, I submitted >> > the patches on tuesday. >> >> > So, what should I do? Still create full pkg-plists and hope that the >> > patch passes the FreeBSD PR system or fall back to dynamic >> > pkg-plists? >> >> You may try to reduce pkg-plist changes. Are you speaking about >> www/typo* ports? If yes, those ports have hardcoded PORTVERSION >> at pkg-plist. One can use make variables to dramatically reduce >> pkg-plist changes: >> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist.h= tml#PLIST-SUB > > "dramatically reduce"? How? Currently it seems it gets even bigger: > > [helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$ ls -s /usr/ports/www/typo3.org/pkg-plist > =A0592 /usr/ports/www/typo3.org/pkg-plist > [helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$ ls -s /usr/ports/www/typo3/pkg-plist > =A0672 /usr/ports/www/typo3/pkg-plist > [helmut@BSDHelmut ~]$ > Just the once, but then the _changes_ each time it's updated are smaller. Remember, we keep our ports in CVS, so every _change_ takes up space. Chris