Reviving a deleted port (pecl-inotify)
Kubilay Kocak
koobs at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 1 09:22:05 UTC 2019
On 1/08/2019 7:15 pm, B.J.Scharp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Back in december when PHP 5.6 went eol, a lot of PECL ports got deleted,
> many of which weren't updated or required with PHP 7.x
>
> However, some of them actually had updates to get them going with PHP 7
>
> An example of this is pecl-inotify
> (https://www.freshports.org/devel/pecl-inotify/)
>
> Version 2.0.0 was released way back in 2016 for PHP 7, but never ported
> for FreeBSD, which only had version 0.1.6.
>
> Updating the port to version 2.0.0 is as simple as changing the version
> in the Makefile, and leaving everything else (including the patch)
> as-is. I've been running it in production for several months now.
>
> What is the preferred way to get this port back? Revive the old one, or
> create a new port 'pecl-inotify2' ?
Revive + modifications
The committer assigning themselves the (bugzilla) issue will take care
of reviving the port from the last revision prior to deletion using svn.
If you have an SVN ports repository and would like to do that to produce
your diff, see:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#ports-qa-re-adding
> On that note, I've no experience submitting ports, just
> modifying/creating them for my own servers. I'll probably be able to
> figure it out with the Handbook, but if the current maintainer wants to
> do it, I'll be happy to shoot him/her a diff or tar with my setup.
SDince the port has been deleted, there's no maintainer by definition,
but feel free to CC the previous maintainer on any issue you create in
bugzilla
If you have any porting questions or need help, #freebsd-ports @
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Regards,
koobs
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