need porting advice: one tool from a larger package

[Steven Kreuzer]

I think it makes sense to name the package i2c-tools since if someone finds out about this software, they are going to look for it by that name in the ports tree.

When the person goes to install it, add a pkg-message saying that only certain parts run on freebsd etc.

I did something very similar with the dtracetoolkit. When I made the port, FreeBSD didn't have the pid provider yet, so a large majority of the scripts could not be run. The ones that I could get to run get installed and the other ones don't.

-- 
Steven Kreuzer


On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> 
> There is a package of a variety of tools, i2c-tools
> (http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/I2CTools).
> I want to port to FreeBSD only a single tool from that package, decode-dimms.
> How should I name my port, "i2c-tools" or "decode-dimms"?
> In my opinion, "decode-dimms" has an advantage of being honest and
> straightforward, but "i2c-tools" has an advantage of preserving the original
> upstream package name. In the future someone might want to port another tool
> from that package and instead of having to create a new port they could just add
> necessary patches and modify the install target and the plist.
> 
> Thank you.
> -- 
> Andriy Gapon
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