Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 19:18:15 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r364113 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg Message-ID: <20140807171815.GV17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <53e0f0ad.5847.5faaa40c@svn.freebsd.org> <15D20738-E215-4F78-A9CC-5A635D488498@adamw.org> <20140806053647.GL17537@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <7D423316-97A3-44B5-A427-4027EF61FACE@adamw.org> <20140807190501.7ac2db0c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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--50RDeE14MEV4qpyy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 07:05:01PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 08:50:49 -0400 Adam Weinberger wrote: > > On 6 Aug, 2014, at 1:36, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:= =20 > >> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >>> On 5 Aug, 2014, at 10:56, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >>>> - Directories can be listed in the plist like files they will be > >>>> considered like @dirrmtry > >>>=20 > >>> That one is exciting! Do they still need to appear in the same way > >>> (i.e. at the end of the plist, in reverse-order)? > >>=20 > >> pkg never had this limitation :) > >=20 > > I am constantly amazed at the tremendous progress that pkgng has > > achieved. The problem is, a lot of these improvements aren=E2=80=99t do= cumented > > anywhere, so it=E2=80=99s hard to know what new paradigms we have at our > > disposal! > >=20 > > Although I suppose that until pkg_install is fully deprecated (< 1 > > month now, yay!), it=E2=80=99s best that we not go crazy with incompati= ble > > plist changes. >=20 > We should probably have a discussion in September about what to do > with the newly acquired freedom. For instance, there are way too many > tiny files in the ports tree that slow down subversion operations and > take up way too much disk space (smallest file size on default FreeBSD > install these days is 4KiB). I think we should move distinfo into the > Makefile, combine all pkg-* files into one Pkgfile (using ucl syntax > maybe?) and combine patches per feature instead of one patch per file. > I'd like to get rid of the files directory too, at least in most cases. >=20 That discussion needs to happen now. I'll collect the idea after my return from vacations :) What I have in mind and is going to happen: - automatically directory handling no more @dirrm* only the empty directory= or the one with special credentials will need to be specified - remove of @exec - remove of the mtrees (from the packages) - make pkg directly handle plist sub so it become plain search&replace inst= ead of dangerous regex I have more ideas but I will let everyone share his first regards, Bapt --50RDeE14MEV4qpyy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPjtNcACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExnAACeIscqbZebXENfmEra4ZqVloWb 9EYAn2Efmpabn55TJiGn/4jS15PaX8/M =+q+V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --50RDeE14MEV4qpyy--
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