[BRAINSTORMING] simplifying maintainer's life

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 02:56:14PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 10:25:39 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On of the most borring thing IMHO in the plist maintainance is all the
> > directories.
> 
> Another idea is to support shell glob patterns (*?[) in pkg-plist.  This
> is possible now thanks to staging.  It would allow moving PORTDOCS,
> PORTDATA and PORTEXAMPLES to pkg-plist.  But more importantly, it would
> allow automatic plists that some ports create in post-install to be
> turned back into a real pkg-plist.  Without glob patterns some pkg-plists
> are just too long or too complicated depending on options.

We could also say pack everything that is in that stage directory.

The problem is right now I do like static plist because if something fails to
build for $reason, that the plist doesn't find a file in the staging area and we
notice quite quickly that something as failed. with autoplist or globbing we do
lose this feature and we need to way deal with it.
In anycase we won't make full autoplist because we still need to be able to
specify credentials files per files if needed. But glob is really appealing :)

regards,
Bapt
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