svn commit: r495383 - in head/java: . wildfly16 wildfly16/files

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 06:17:19PM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Log:
> > >   New port: java/wildfly16
> [...]
> > Its name suggests it should've been repocopied from one of the earlier
> > versions but it was not, why is that?
> 
> I missed it, that is common for arkane rules.
> 
> Now, would some person who knows why we do keep to certain rites
> add one section to
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#ports-qa-repocopies
> 
> to explain *why* we do this ? We already have a 'when' and 'how', but
> no 'why' section.
> 
> A section to explain how a repo-copy can be re-applied after it
> was done wrong, would probably help others as well. As
> can be seen by my recent attempt, it's not simple.

We do because we care about history.

> Any chance to have a script similar to the mfh-script, that
> re-does repo-copies ? 

We have, it is called Tools/script/addport, it'll resurrect port instead
of adding them anew.  It has a -y flag that I am not sure what it does.
It may need a bit of care.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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