And for the documentation. Porter's handbook, it needs changes?
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote: > After the discussion that happened here is what I think we should do > If no stong objections are raised thise this will happen in pkg 1.3.8 > > - Ignore mtree in packages > - Automatically handle directory removal for any directory under PREFIX > - Introduce @dir (in fact already there) for directories with special care: > * empty directories > * directories with special credential (@dir(user,group,mode)) > - Consider directories out of PREFIX as special hence needing to be listed > with > @dir > > @dirrmtry and @dirrm will be considered changed into aliases for @dir but > remain > for compatibility (with a warning if DEVELOPER_MODE is set) > > - the possibility to accept regular plist entry as directories will be in but > disable by default, allowing vendors to rely on it if they do want but > leaving > the ports tree not accepting them (that clarifies a lot what the the plist > for > maintainers) > > - automatic plist is postponed for later as there is no concensus and it will > require lots of work to be able to provide a minimum set on fonctionnality > that are important for maintainers: > * having some sort of pkg filesearch to find what do provide a given > file/header > * being able to store what is the expected normal content of the package so > a > builder can raise an error is something goes wrong (this can become really > tricky, given all possible options and so on) > > Other proposals are not rejected at all, there was sure interesting ones with > nice design proposed, but that will be too intrusive for pkg 1.3.x as designed > > regards, > Bapt _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
