Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:24:21 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big patches Message-ID: <CADLo838q49W7W_Dki3x-UaPT1fmhmHG47fm1bRxzH9fk%2BKg9oQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <xn0hi1nb8atba4002@news.gmane.org> References: <xn0hi0msq2gi3a000@news.gmane.org> <81610638@h30.sp.ipt.ru> <xn0hi1nb8atba4002@news.gmane.org>
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On 19 August 2011 11:18, Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de> 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
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