Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:35:01 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> To: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, ohauer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for testers -- CONF_FILES variable Message-ID: <BANLkTinBC184bwcQ1Sfyy9xsw9usqr3SJQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikvMU2dK=aN=hFgxA8wfvUitmfbRA@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTikvMU2dK=aN=hFgxA8wfvUitmfbRA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > I've rewritten the CONF_FILES handling after talking to bapt@, and > I've done away with the > colon-separated tuples -- they're overcomplicated. > > The result is something like MAN and PORTDOCS (indeed most of the code > is stolen from PORTDOCS). > > This means that shell globs, filenames and directories are specified > in CONF_FILES, but the sample file is installed in the Makefile as > .pkgconf. I like the rest, but I do not like the name of .pkgconf. I think, the 'pkgconf' is best define for something related with FreeBSD rather than third-party product. The .sample or .default is best name and less confuse for the users, because the word said it all what it is. Cheers, Mezz > Examples for MailScanner [1] show how it can replace huge trees of > config files, and for portscout [2] shows how it is used for just one > file. > > Look at how much has been removed from the MailScanner plist and > pkg-*install.in files -- there are three screens of unused functions > that could also be chopped out now too! > > I'm asking people to (if they want) try out the new variable, and let > me know what they like and don't like about it. > > Since bapt@ is sort of sponsoring this and isn't back for ~ two weeks > it won't make it in before then at least, but some testing and > feedback would be fantastic! > > http://people.freebsd.org/~crees/patches/bsd-port-mk-conf-files-plist-only-pkgconf.diff > > Chris > > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~crees/patches/mailscanner-conf-files.diff > [2] http://people.freebsd.org/~crees/patches/portscout-conf-files.diff > > P.S. Before people complain about the pkgconf suffix, that is for > compatibility with pkgng, and no, .sample files are not going to be > supported -- they'll need to be installed as .pkgconf. Sorry. -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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