On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de>wrote:
> 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. > I find redports is an effective way to check on plists. I found that it was the best way to catch errors, especially on one port that had a many hundred line long plist. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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"
