Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports

[Łukasz Jakub Siemiradzki]

Dnia 14 lis 2013 o godz. 15:33 Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> napisał(a):

> Jason Helfman wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Erwin Lansing<erwin at freebsd.org>  wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> That sounds like an excellent idea.  I'm just a bit worried about
>>> spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split
>>> content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the
>>> current WWW.  I know we're not consistent already with things like
>>> COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to
>>> where these end up.
>>> 
>>> Erwin
>>> 
>> 
>> With good ideas usually bloat is not too far behind. I think this is a
>> great idea, however I think it would be
>> worth considering a potential new file for this, that can be parsed without
>> causing too much new data in existing
>> files. Perhaps, a file named pkg-vendor. In this file, all sorts of
>> information can be places, and parsed or used
>> by our package infrastructure.
>> 
>> -jgh
> 
> I don't think the new file is a good idea. It means more than 20 000 more files in /usr/ports, so all fs related operations will be slower (svn checkout, portsnap updated and extract or even ports.tar.gz extract)
> And more space will be wasted just for a few new short lines of text (about 4kB for each file of size in tens of bytes)
> 
> Miroslav Lachman

A new file in /usr/ports with mappings port -> meta information, rather than one file per port. That was my initial understanding. There are drawbacks of that (synchronization between tree and file) but it seems to be better than one file per port. 


Best regards
Łukasz Siemiradzki