On 10/04/2014 20:28, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> >> On 10/04/2014 18:53, Helmut Schneider wrote: >>> I created a new port, Typo3-LTS. The tgz contains >>> >>> - Makefile >>> - distinfo >>> - pkg-plist >>> - pkg-descr >>> - a diff from www/typo3 >>> >>> The file has ~150kB so I assume it's to big for a PR. >> >> I assume the bulk of that is the pkg-plist. The largest pkg-plist >> in the ports tree is 4M. In my opinion huge plists should be dynamically >> generated, but in your case I'd just I'd just temp-host the file >> somewhere and file a PR with a link and a checksum. >> >> Regards >> > > ... > autoplist is dangerous because we have no way to control that what is package > is > what the maintainer expect to be packaged! therefore we often end up with > unoticed problems
The majority of problems I used to have as a port maintainer stemmed from fiddling with plists. I.e. my experience is the opposite, manual plists lead to errors. Autogenerated plists (which I use in most cases, because dynamic ones are against policy) have reduced the amount of mistakes I make tremendously. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
