On Tue, 2023-01-24 at 16:51 +0100, Adrian Schollmeyer wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> a while back Jonas Licht (Cc) wrote an eclass for Nginx dynamic modules.
> For a few years now, Nginx supports building third party dynamic modules
> outside of the Nginx source tree with the help of Nginx's build system.
> Since this involves quite some work to obtain information from the Nginx
> build configuration and using Nginx's build system to actually build the
> module, an eclass was written. The last RFC didn't make it into
> ::gentoo, since the requested changes haven't been applied.
> 
> However, we have been working on the eclass again and applied all the
> requested changes, made it EAPI=8 compatible and were able to use it
> successfully to package a third party Nginx module in ::fem-overlay [0].
> 
> This patchset contains the reworked nginx-module.eclass for building
> third party modules using Nginx's build system as separate packages.
> Furthermore the category www-nginx is added where these third party
> modules shall be put. Lastly, www-nginx/nginx-vod-module is added as a
> first package using this eclass.
> 
> The patchset is also available as PR #16053 on GitHub [1]. If this
> patchset is applied, the other PR for adding nginx-vod-module [2]
> probably becomes obsolete [2].
> 

How many packages do you expect to add to this new category?  It's not
customary to create a new category for one package.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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