Sam Lawrance wrote:
So, I created a new port (ports/113608) for Code::Blocks which has
not had a source code release for almost two years despite constant
development. However, the currently correct way to get the source is
via subversion. The port currently does this, but I'm unsure of
exactly what is required by the fetch and extract targets, so I'm not
sure what the "right" thing to do here is. I can think of a few
possibilities:
1) The fetch target is intended to do all the steps which require a
network connection and extract is intended to places the files into
WRKSRC
- In this case, the fetch target would use svn co to WRKSRC and the
extract target would do nothing. This is what the port currently does.
2) The fetch target is intended to place source archives into DISTDIR
and extract is intended to place them into WRKSRC
- In this case, the extract target would use svn co to WRKSRC and the
fetch target would do nothing.
3) The fetch target is intended to place a source archive in DISTDIR
and the extract target is intended to extract that archive into WRKSRC
- Here I would need to do the svn checkout in the fetch target,
archive it, then delete it.
4) The fetch target retrieves sources in the distribution format and
extract places them into WRKSRC
- In this case, you would svn co to a DIST_SUBDIR in fetch, then
extract would copy that to WRKSRC
5) fetch *MUST* fetch a source archive into DISTDIR. None of this
svn/CVS checkout stuff in the ports tree.
- Hrmph. So rather than bumping PORTREVISION to the desired
subversion revision and having it Just Work, one needs to make a
source archive and host it somewhere himself and be responsible for
updating it himself too.
In the past, it has been easiest if the maintainer (you) creates an
archive of the source and either puts it up for download, or asks for
it to be mirrored as a local distfile (the committer who deals with
the PR will do this for you).
To make it easier for yourself, you might create a "roll-tarball"
target in the port, which you (or future maintainers) can use to
automatically fetch the source from subversion and create a new source
archive.
Actually, I found it quite easy to have the port pull the sources from
svn. Who are we concerned about making it easier for and why (and how
is it any easier?)
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