Re: Some ports tree policy changes

Le 24 avril 2022 11:45:55 GMT+02:00, Rene Ladan <portmgr-secretary@freebsd.org> a écrit :
>Hello,
>
>portmgr discussed releasing a lot of files in Mk/ to the general public (i.e.
>you) a few weeks ago. This is to encourage people to work on this kind of
>infrastructure, make it less exclusive to portmgr and perhaps make it feel
>less scary. The first change, https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34936, has just been
>committed as https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=767d81e1296a49573aaa24dfc9677f801fddc6d4
>
>Documentation on these infrastructure files might be lacking somewhat at the
>moment. This documentation should describe the rationale and possible pitfalls.
>Portmgr is looking for a way to do this properly.
>
>Portmgr does reserve the right to revert commits in case too much things break
>with a commit to Mk/ . Things that could be worked on are:
>- converting Mk/bsd.X.mk to USES=X
>- adding more triggers to prevent duplicated actions while (de)installing or
>  upgrading multiple packages at once
>- <your idea here>
>
>Regards,
>René on behalf of portmgr

To complement it is still stronglh recommended to seek for review by portmgr and request for exp-run for such changes.

Best regards
Bapt