From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 00:45:28 2010 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 995FC106566C for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f228.google.com (mail-fx0-f228.google.com [209.85.220.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D778FC08 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:45:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm28 with SMTP id 28so90376fxm.31 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:45:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=4unbt2tUuQ5sM4Br/sBbiYi3qbamCwKaQaF+t1tQilY=; b=MG+dar0P/cAy2JFE16zuiKxPgjcDyqcb+TekRii4Aq/QKM/pgMg9Icndn/3erBwzzu n5dKJOl1N7TB8qQBGIBna50ApWu2LNnt9G+X8nnAvisJebMhvqYJoM+fCsLdGkMeBBkx 0GLFa+NTFg2+TP0QgXXffnSKdVugGIPAmUWZs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=bycMf+lnuFi9BJw7X0QdRIKI/WHget2wLMthNVAtg0VzpgUxvH3HZEp4uByeNT0xNp Ev7qs+C5/DO3yGsMIddm21pvT05WHo8svVtyuARRtoxwgnvmVyKCsisFeuSG804+t9zM i0wYUmCrTIY85IXmBnsQcrpya5Ah26pyHb0tA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.6.27 with SMTP id 27mr5171901fax.31.1266194727101; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:45:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:45:27 +0000 Message-ID: <3fcfb0ba1002141645h532fc790h96a93d1737673c23@mail.gmail.com> From: CeDeROM To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Shoud devel port be RC or GIT based? 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: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:45:28 -0000 Hello world! In a moments of hard testing just before a software release, releases of a RC (Release Candidate) packages are done to alow some final tests. I am wondering if it is convenient to create the devel port, to allow better testing for non-freebsd-aware users. Would that be more convenient to base such devel port on a RC releases, or directly the GIT repository? How would the dynamic pkg-plist file content look like in case of GIT build? Would files built from GIT repository are to be installed in /usr/local or some easry-to-remove specific location such as /tmp/devel/portname ? Is it convenient at all to create GIT based devel port if the user needs to use standard git procedure anyway to upload the rewritten/updated files? Please advise :-) Tomek Cedro -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info