s/manpage/homepage/g of course; sorry. Jan
On Jan 11 22:22:10, h...@stare.cz wrote: > On Jan 11 11:49:40, ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On 2018-01-11, at 9:37 AM, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > > > > > > > > > But if I can find a saved one at archive.org, that would be better, to be > > > sure. > > > > > > K > > > > I've been prospecting MacPorts errors reported by repology > > <https://repology.org/maintainer/nomaintainer%40macports.org/problems>. A > > common error is that the homepage 404s out. > > > > Many of these ports still work install correctly, but have no homepage, no > > homepage can seem to be found, and there is none on archive.org. > > > > Rather than just have it error out forever, I made this page in the spirit > > of the gentoo page: > > > > <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/NoHomePage> > > > > > > If that is acceptable, I'd like to use it, or some variation of it, for > > ports like biggersql, for example, to fix some of these errors. > > What errors exactly will be "fixed" by that? > > > PS : Personally, I think asking users for a new homepage, if there is one, > > is better than just deleting the homepage variable requirement in Portfiles. > > It might be useful to display a message when a port without a manpage is > installed, saying something like you put on the page above, but shorter: > > $port does not have a manpage. > Please let $maintainer know if you know where it is. > > (But note that all the ports listed on that repology page have no maintainer. > And honestly, how many times has it happened in the past that a user came up > with "hey, this homepage you thought was dead is actually here now"?) > > At any rate, this would imho be better displayed automaticaly with > "port notes" - not explicitly in Portfile of course, but implicitly > for ports without a manpage. Meaning they don't have one in the Portfile, > as opposed to "it has this 'homepage', but it's not really its homepage". > > > Jan >
