On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Koop Mast wrote: > On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 00:56 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to propose a change in the localbase hier for ports > > > > I think we should add /usr/local/share/man in the manpath along with > > at first > > and maybe instead of in long term. > > > > The reason is: > > - /usr/local/share/man seems more consistent to me with base which > > have: > > /usr/share/man > > - It will remove lots of patches from the ports tree where were we > > need to patch > > upstream build system to install in a non usual path. > > > > My proposal is to add to the manpath /usr/local/share/man in default > > man(1) > > command in FreeBSD 12 (MFCed to 11-STABLE) > > > > and either provide an errata for 11.0/10.3 or a > > /usr/local/etc/man.d/something.conf via a port or something like that > > for those > > two, what do you think? > > > > For the same reason I would like to allow porters to stop patching > > (with pathfix > > or anything else) the path for pkgconfig files and allow > > /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig along with the current > > /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig:/usr/libdata/pkgconfig > > > > Which will also remove tons of hacks from the ports tree. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Best regards, > > Bapt > > Hello, > > I recently committed the USES for the meson build system to ports. This > USES configures the meson build system with some default variables > which includes the location of the man pages. This setting is just a > flag to the meson command so it easy to change. > > Meson also handles the generation and installation of pkg-config files > that a port wants. The problem is that this is handled by the script > itself and there is no way to configure it, so we need to hack the > meson port to change it from lib/pkg-config to libdata/pkg-config like > we currently are using. (1) Or add a hack to meson.mk to move the pkg- > config to the right location (evil++ imho). > > My point I want to make is that currently there is only 1 port build > via the meson system (graphics/graphene). Should we change man/pkg- > config file locations now, it very easy. If we want to change them > later we will need to mass bump every meson build port. It is important > to note that GStreamer and GNOME are moving over to using meson instead > of autotools and that Wayland, Xorg en Mesa are exploring want is > needed to make the switch. So I think it important that the decision > what to do is done now and that we stick with it. > > Reading the rest of the thread it seems nobody is really against the > proposed change of man and pkg-config path's. So how does one submit a > policy change like this? I'm also not sure I'm the right person to push > this, I just got back from a break and I don't want to really deal with > something super high profile right away. > > -Koop > > (1) I would like to see lib/pkg-config back in the search path of > pkgconf since that means I don't have to do a crash course python > programming.
Would be nice is portmgr can step on this, let's reduce this discussion for now on pkgconf. Best regards, Bapt
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