On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:33:33PM +0300, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > (some history) > > During this summer the Jannis Tsaraias worked on the pkg_module, an > automated port creation framework as a GSoC Project. The project > succeeded, and Jannis stayed to maintain the code and accept patches > from interested parties: > > https://github.com/diethyl/pkg_module > > (back to nowadays) > > A few months went, and we're still at the same place. pkg_module > proved to work by a few people already, and should be a nice addition > for 5.9. So I want to move on and finally import it. I'm attaching the > archive to be extracted under /usr/ports/infrastructure. After that > just type something like "pkg_module ruby dbf" and see how easy it > goes. :) > > Personally I use it about once a month, saving a hour or two of manual > work. In particular, I'm trying to reuse this code to make maintaining > KDE Frameworks easier: doing things manually, I have to re-start > porting a new version before finishing a previous one... > > Any comments/suggestions/objections/okays?
I haven't looked at it yet but just one question: does it allow to *update* existing ports? I wouldn't really be happy if it helped pushing even more orphaned ruby-* p5* ... stuffs into the tree. -- Antoine
