Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:05:12 +0100 From: michael.grunewald@laposte.net (=?iso-8859-15?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?=) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best practices for managing tweaked ports Message-ID: <86sl07y5fr.fsf@Llea.celt.neu>
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Dear FreeBSD folks,
I am seeking for a word in advice in how to automatically tweak some
applications, possibly making packages for them.
Long version:
The XDM software provides an example to illustrate the issues: I have
written scripts and configuration files that tweaked XDM to my fancy,
and I wonder how use them to a large (large has a magnitude of 2 :) )
scale.
The current solution is: I have a post install shell script that plugs
my files into appropriate location. This works but there is two
drawbacks:
1. I have to run that post install shell script on each targetted
machine;
2. The home-made files are alien to package management tools, and
cause (little) trouble int package management tools operation.
Here are solutions I envisaged, I would like to know about pitfalls,
recommendations, user experience, etc., with these:
1. I do use portupgrade, so I could use A/B (afterinstall,
beforebuild) switches, hooks in pkgtools.conf as a base for a
simple `port tweaking framework'. This would however not produce
packages with tweakings wired in.
2. I could prepare ports dedicated to tweaking, i.e. a port that
installs nothing but configuration files. I am afraid this cannot
be done in a straightforward manner, since a given file (say
/usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources) cannot be managed by two
packages (the one made from the original XDM, and the one made
from the XDM tweaker port) .
3. I could prepare a port derived from the original XDM port, that
adds any tweaking, and play with pkgtools.conf to remap port
dependencies adequately.
As stated in the introduction, I would be very glad to get your
advices, from your direct experience in this topic as well as `a
priori'.
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Many thanks for your attention.
Cheers,
Micha=EBl
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