Re: Is there any RSS feed or mailing list that informs users when new package version is available via pkg.freebsd.org?
On 13-6-2018 19:14, Yuri wrote: > One user asked me this question via e-mail, and I don't know the > answer myself. I use http://www.freshports.org/backend/rss2.0.php myself, but this may not be what you are looking for. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date
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General clarification about ports and CouchDB 2.x specifically
Hi, I know this is probably a good candidate for a "read the docs"-kind of question, but is there anyone who can clarify me whats the exact situation for this "new" port that seem to have gotten stuck in the middle of it's path? https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218844 I'm not very confident with the Ports' approval mechanism so I don't exactly understand what's going on... is there any hope to have Couchdb 2.x anytime soon in the pkgs? Thanks a lot for the clarification. -- Andrea Brancatelli ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: General clarification about ports and CouchDB 2.x specifically
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 04:21:57PM +0200, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is probably a good candidate for a "read the docs"-kind of > question, but is there anyone who can clarify me whats the exact > situation for this "new" port that seem to have gotten stuck in the > middle of it's path? > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218844 > > I'm not very confident with the Ports' approval mechanism so I don't > exactly understand what's going on... is there any hope to have Couchdb > 2.x anytime soon in the pkgs? Looking quickly at it, the Makefile is a bit of a mess and needs a lot more cleanup, but that can be done by a committer. I think all it needs is a committer to take it on, clean it up, and commit it. I'll answer the PR with what I see needs cleaning up. -- Mathieu Arnold signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27
Hello list, I'm probably not alone in considering git to be a core development tool, perhaps just a notch or two below the C compiler. `git` and `sudo` are the two packages I first install (after `pkg` itself) on any machine, and in many cases that suffices to get a basic development environment going. However, the git package currently brings in a host of unwanted dependencies, and I *believe* they can be done without. This is the complete dependency graph for the git package [0] (generated with the newly-minted pkg-graph [1]). It pulls in perl5 and python27, both sizeable packages and both not required to use git. While git can be compiled without some of the additional dependencies such as expat or pcre, this results in a "crippled" git lacking in some core features, and requires special build-time definitions like NO_EXPAT or NO_PCRE passed to the git Makefile. The other dependencies like curl, pcre, and gettext are also relatively small and typically part of even the most minimal system, but perl5 and python27 are full-blown runtimes for interpreted languages that have fallen out of favor and have been successfully stripped from FreeBSD core (and even many Linux distributions). I'm sure these packages are not just there to have a good time and they serve some purpose and enable a subset of the git functionality, but my question here today is whether that functionality is worth its weight in dependencies, and whether the ports team is open to seeing the git package stripped of these dependencies. (Obviously the option of adding a "git-lite" package à la "vim-lite" also exists, but I think it's fair to say that would be an ugly and unnecessary compromise.) [0]: https://goo.gl/hozu1b [1]: https://github.com/neosmart/pkg-graph Many thanks, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi NeoSmart Technologies ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:15:49PM -0500, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote: > > (Obviously the option of adding a "git-lite" package à la "vim-lite" also > exists, but I think it's fair to say that would be an ugly and unnecessary > compromise.) That ugly compromise has already been made: $ pkg search git-lite git-lite-2.17.1Distributed source code management tool (lite package) ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Removing git dependencies on perl5 and python27
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Mahmoud Al-Qudsi wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm probably not alone in considering git to be a core development tool, > perhaps just a notch or two below the C compiler. `git` and `sudo` are the two > packages I first install (after `pkg` itself) on any machine, and in many > cases that suffices to get a basic development environment going. > > However, the git package currently brings in a host of unwanted dependencies, > and I *believe* they can be done without. > > This is the complete dependency graph for the git package [0] (generated with > the newly-minted pkg-graph [1]). It pulls in perl5 and python27, both sizeable > packages and both not required to use git. > > While git can be compiled without some of the additional dependencies such as > expat or pcre, this results in a "crippled" git lacking in some core features, > and requires special build-time definitions like NO_EXPAT or NO_PCRE passed to > the git Makefile. The other dependencies like curl, pcre, and gettext are also > relatively small and typically part of even the most minimal system, but perl5 > and python27 are full-blown runtimes for interpreted languages that have > fallen out of favor and have been successfully stripped from FreeBSD core (and > even many Linux distributions). > > I'm sure these packages are not just there to have a good time and they serve > some purpose and enable a subset of the git functionality, but my question > here today is whether that functionality is worth its weight in dependencies, > and whether the ports team is open to seeing the git package stripped of these > dependencies. > > (Obviously the option of adding a "git-lite" package à la "vim-lite" also > exists, but I think it's fair to say that would be an ugly and unnecessary > compromise.) > > [0]: https://goo.gl/hozu1b > [1]: https://github.com/neosmart/pkg-graph Agreed. I'd personally much rather see small default packages and -kitchensink slaves, than massive default packages and -lite slaves. It's always struck me as odd that our git package comes with CVS and Perforce support. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
