[BRAINSTORMING] simplifying maintainer's life

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/3/2014 1:57 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> What might be interesting is an autoplist with glob-like syntax to
> support sub-packages. So a main package could be everything except
> .debug, or .h, or man/*. Or each of those prefixed with a keyword
> specifying with package they are in.

It may be tricky to handle the current ignore mechanism of @comment. I
laid out ideas for this before. Here is my previous proposal which had
separate plist files for sub-packages. The general idea could be adapted
to other ways of specifying patterns/lists for sub-packages though:

All plists are packaged and then anything leftover is packaged into
the main package assuming there is not a plist for it specifying
what to install.  Orphans would only be things not in any plist.
So if you specify a main plist then you are forbidden to have
orphans, not specifying a plist would have no orphans as everything
is installed from stagedir.


1. No plists = everything in STAGEDIR is automatically added to a plist.
   (I suppose this ignores all the cruft in Mk/* that adds to plists)
2. pkg-plist = "main" plist, If you only have this file then any orphans
   are fatal.
3. pkg-plist, pkg-plist.docs, main package and doc package, any orphan
   not in one of these plists is fatal. "doc" is arbitrary here, you can
   have N plists.
4. pkg-plist.ignore contains files not to install and not to consider
   orphans. One could argue that "ignore" here really should be a
   subpackage of the ignored files. I.e., why are they ignored? Should
   it really just be another subpackage? But "ignore" can be a special
   case to really ignore and not package.

This scheme gives us autoplist, a way to ignore orphans you know don't
matter, and properly alerts when new files are added in new releases.


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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