Port Request - FrontAccounting

[Chris Rees]

On 19 August 2012 16:11, Olli Hauer <ohauer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2012-08-19 12:28, Alan Hicks wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 19/08/2012 03:46, Janketh Jay wrote:
>> Or not. It appears the attachment was lost. You can download the
>> .tar.gz file from the following URL:
>>
>> http://www.purplehat.org/downloads/frontaccounting/frontaccounting-2.3.11-fbsd-port.tar.gz
>>
>> Extract to ${PORTSDIR}/www and let me know if anything needs to be
>> changed and/or adjusted....
>>
>> On 08/18/2012 08:42 PM, Janketh Jay wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/18/2012 11:53 AM, Paul Pathiakis wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>> This is probably the best competitor to QuickBooks out there.
>>>>>> People can rave about the benefits of GnuCash and Kmymoney.
>>>>>> I've used both and they both lack.  This doesn't.  I've also got
>>>>>> a pretty good bit of Accounting in my background.  This should
>>>>>> definitely be a port.
>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I don't have time.  I'm busy trying to build Atlantis
>>>>>> Services and putting FreeBSD and PCBSD into the mainstream.  This
>>>>>> is one of those things that will be necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul Pathiakis
>>>>>
>>>>> I've attached a port (in tar.gz form) which is the FrontAccounting
>>>>> port for FreeBSD. I've tested it a few times and it seems to work
>>>>> perfectly fine. If someone wants to test this before I submit,
>>>>> that would be great. Otherwise, I'll submit some time tomorrow.
>>
>>> Thanks for porting, install works well.
>>
>>> On de-installing before running the install wizard there are unable to delete errors for
>>> www/frontaccounting/config_db.php
>>> www/frontaccounting/config.default.php
>>
>>> After a full install including the web install wizard there are delete errors for
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting/config.default.php' doesn't exist
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting/tmp'
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting/lang'
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting/company/0/js_cache'
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting/company/0'
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting/company'
>>> '/usr/local/www/frontaccounting'
>>
>>> Perhaps @dirrmtry might be of help
>>
>>> Also unable to build a package as cannot find config_db.php
>>
>>> Trying the usual portmaster reinstall fails to create a backup package and so has to prompt to ignore the error, the reinstall succeeds successfully.
>>
>>> Should be a great addition to the ports,
>>> Alan
>
>
> some other things ...
>
> - apache20 is dead so use 22 instead 20
> - you don't need apache as build dependency so use
>   s|USE_APACHE=20+|USE_APACHE_RUN=22+|
> - s|www/frontaccounting|%%WWWDIR%%|
> - s|share/doc/frontaccounting|%%DOCSDIR%%|
> - use %%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%% in pkg-plist and test install with and without DOCS
> - please use PORTDOCS= instead DOCS= (make.conf)

^^^ If you use PORTDOCS=, get rid of the DOCSDIR lines in the plist.

> - there is no config_db.php
> - file config.default.php is twice in pkg-plist
> - please start using the new options framework
> - documents are installed twice (in WWWDIR and DOCSDIR)
> - is it really necessary to chown -R www:www WWWDIR
>   generally bad usage, isn't WWWDIR/tmp is enough?
> - use pkg-install to change permission, not TMPPLIST
>   else permissions are set only during package install