On 2024-01-21 08:44, Rainer Hurling wrote:
Am 21.01.24 um 11:19 schrieb Gleb Popov:
Ahoy there fellow porters!
portmgr@ is currently working on switching the directory into which
man pages are installed from "${PREFIX}/man" to "${PREFIX}/share/man".
It is quite a tedious process, as you might imagine. More than that,
changing the default for a given build system instantly breaks all
ports that use it, which means that this task can't be done
incrementally in the main branch.
I've created a branch [1] in my own fork that switches mandir for the
autotools build system and am inviting everyone to collaborate on
that, until all the fallout is fixed. I'm asking port maintainers to
check if they have ports with the "GNU_CONFIGURE=yes" knob, as these
are most likely broken by the switch. Moin kindly prepared a list of
affected ports along with their maintainers (thanks Moin!) [2]
In the most simple case you'll only need to change the pkg-plist, as I
did in this example commit [3]. Make sure to bump PORTREVISION as
we're altering the package's contents by this change. Also put the
"Approved by: portmgr (blanket)" tag in the commit message, as the
whole initiative was approved by the portmgr@ group.
If you want to collaborate either create a pull request on GH against
my branch or just send me a git format-patch output for your change.
Thanks beforehand to everyone going to help!
[1] https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/tree/autotools-mandir
[2] http://arrowd.name/manprefix-fail.maintainer.txt
[3]
https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/commit/cc288e9b742cd54640e06737334dd57d88d45f6d
Thanks for all the work! I'll take care of all of mine. So you can take all
the
portmaster@ off the list. I'm working on them now and should be done by
tomorrow AM.
Thanks again.
--Chris
Ahoy, dear skipper!
Thank you for all the work you and others put into this change.
I am represented in Moin's list with three ports (maintainer rhurlin), all
three
of which are 'pure' Python ports:
- astro/py-ephem
- textproc/py-python-lsp-jsonrpc
- textproc/py-whatthepatch (waiting for an update of setuptools)
All three ports do not generate any man pages. So I don't understand why
they are
included in the list. Or is it different if autotools is used?
Thanks in advance for any clarification.
Best wishes from a crew member,
Rainer
