Quoting Alex Dupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:52:15 +0100):
Alexander Leidinger ha scritto:
To achieve this goal we have 2 possibilities, either we install
everything into LINUXBASE and install a wrapper in LOCALBASE, or we
install everything in a safe location in LOCALBASE. The first part
requires that the maintainers of the linux program play some
tricks in their port (plist and/or Makfile). If they fail to do
this, it increases the load of portmgr from time to time (build
failures on the build cluster). In the second case (install into a
safe place in LOCALBASE), portmgr is out of the loop, as if
something goes wrong, the port maintainer and/or emulation@ is
asked for help, as it is a bug of the port.
I admit that probably I'm using only one or two linux applications and
I've never created a linux port, but I think the right way is the
former possibility, the latter seems a hack to me. It could be harder
for unexperienced maintainers, but once we defined the correct way to
add a wrapper in LOCALBASE (and put it in the porter's handbook), I
think the work for maintainers/committers should be quite easy. What
are the other issues that make the former solution so difficult?
Multiple prefixes in one port (pkg-plist).
I know it is possible. I know that several native ports use it. I know
how the linux ports looked before I cleaned up several bad things in
most of them.
We (Boris and me) managed to refine the linux-rpm bits into a .mk
which allows more easy porting, but I know the complexity behind and
sometimes I just wonder how some linux port managed to not produce a
hell of a lot of support requests. It allows to produce nice and easy
(sort of) installation of rpms into LINUXBASE. Judging from the
quality of most of the linux ports I've seen, I think requiring
multiple prefixes in the pkg-plist calls for more problems in the
generation of linux ports.
On the other hand, if you can come up with some easy to use macros for
a .mk file which hides everything (WRAPPER_SBIN=${FILESDIR}/foobar, or
whatever), I happily review them and share my opinion about them based
upon my experience with the linux ports. Take maybe a game (one with
average porting complexity), and maybe acroread as an example which
shows how to use them
Bye,
Alexander.
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