New port, what's next?

[Dominic Fandrey]

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.

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