On 2015/12/17 09:12, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > 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.
That's a harder problem as you need to test dependent ports and figure out whether test failures are new or already existed..
