From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 21:29:36 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 9E9FA106566B; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BF38FC12; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so695789vws.13 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:29:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=/L6Hpj8UodtJbTbZkgetz12xxJVCvFyZ7vDXfp8D2A8=; b=hwEUDQgRKD9gy+Bxfnc+YHiiD7+roTrgXaFrwvMeX66f6iDLP4N0FgW9EZJhyWfhCZ yOB6/9wP2KUqoBiu5Eg/CRdaoP/AnWTNGYmfe4Q8h1bKLM8xMiDTuY8IwCZ7KKyf5MqP LNYFcUPEKv4HSB4inXeyLJ4jRltEvibDQx9hw= Received: by 10.52.95.50 with SMTP id dh18mr2836943vdb.170.1310678975193; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:29:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.165.74 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:29:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E0C5B7A.5060102@FreeBSD.org> <4E109521.10209@FreeBSD.org> <64bc4d1f59e39f71f77ced1aed64e734@etoilebsd.net> From: Eitan Adler Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:29:05 -0400 Message-ID: To: Chris Rees Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Baptiste Daroussin , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers -- CONF_FILES variable 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: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:29:36 -0000 > What bapt is talking about is that he doesn't want people to blindly > install the .sample files from the distfile, and actually _look_ > through them. This is exactly what I expect the port to be doing. I do _not_ want the port maintainers to be touching the upstream sample conf files unless (a) they don't conform to hier(1) or (b) FreeBSD specific settings need to be enabled. > Of course, if you're changing the files at all you really shouldn't > use the .sample format, because the .sample format comes from the > distfile, not necessarily the port. There are two cases (1) The configuration needed a FreeBSD specific change (like adding /usr/local/bin to PATH or whatnot) then the .sample suffix should not be changed (2) The port maintainer gratuitously changed the default configuration given by the upstream project. In the former case the suffix should not be changed. The latter case should not happen. > I think it's much politer for the users to receive a config file > that's almost usable. This is where we disagree. It may make sense for some very small projects to have the maintainer up set the configuration file. However for most programs (such as ssmtp, portmaster, aiccu, tarsnap, etc) it makes no sense for the maintainer of the port to making operator decisions. -- Eitan Adler