[BRAINSTORMING] simplifying maintainer's life

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:56:22PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:50:30 +0200 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 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 :)
> 
> I completely agree :)  Files should be listed explicitly if possible,
> but sometimes it's very inconvenient and in these cases some ports
> roll their own autoplist implementations which worse than having a
> static pkg-plist with a few glob patterns.
> 
> Moving PORTDOCS etc. to pkg-plist means all package content is listed
> in one file.  That will probably simplify check-plist too.

Glob sounds nice but can lead to easy failures with files named with glob
patterns like archivers/deco

regards,
Bapt
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