Additional_Port_File_RFC

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-May-11 11:14:06 -0400, Jeff Bouquet <71321.303 at compuserve.com> wrote:
>Not enough info is given with ports installations or pre-installs
>(not so bad in 2004 with 9000 ports avail.)

What additional info do you want/expect?

>...I have installed amaya, but it is nowhere to be found.  Googling
>turned up nothing.  its binary that Plist says is installed, isnt anywhere.

You can audit an installed port/package with "pkg_info -g PORTNAME"
and the definitive list of what is installed as part of PORTNAME is
/var/db/pkg/PORTNAME/+CONTENTS

If you don't have /usr/local/bin/amaya, please file a PR, including the
full output from your 'make install'

>...pantomine?  I have gnustep ports installed, but the last time I actually
>used them several years ago was a multistep procedure I cannot reduplicate 
>without another hour of work

And?  If you are trying to report a problem, you need to provide a
description of the actual problem and some way to reproduce it.

>...Sat am, a Periodic (/local/) began hogging CPU.  Took me a good 20 min
>to find out that it was not cron, but periodic, and how to start the
>script

If you want this investigated, you are going to need to provide details
of what port was involved and what was wrong with the configuration.

>...gsnapshot, if installed silently breaks one or two /multimedia/ app builds

Submit a PR describing what breaks and what ports are involved.

>...mnogosearch and udmsearch install one or two common files.

Submit a PR describing what common files are installed.

>..."topless -c ps axuwww"   Where was that command 3 years ago ???

Maybe it hadn't been written or no-one had bothered to submit it as a port.

>... a wiki.info somewhere, to which users who discover these things
>...could post them (presubmitting to the maintainer? if possible)
>so if one has 1000 ports installed, 5 hours (some weeks) of figuring
>stuff out could be cut to one hour.  

http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

>btw the original reason for wanting the additional file in /port/, was
>so that the build order is known.  for instance, as I build
>ports manually, every week or so I put a "This_Order_This_port" file
>in a few /ports/ so that I know without an additional 10 min.
>of build-depends-list how to bump them.

The whole point of the ports dependency information is to relieve you
of the necessity of doing this.

>Sorry not subscribed to the list.  the freebsd-questions list uses
>up all my time I could allot to this one.

So you're too busy to submit problem reports that could actually be
investigated and corrected, or to help with the ports, but just want
to have a whinge?

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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