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
