Working on FLAVOR support in portmaster

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 7 13:54:29 UTC 2017


On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 02:49:45PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> Quoting Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> (from Tue, 5 Dec 2017 08:35:55 +0100):
> 
> > Am 05.12.17 um 00:43 schrieb Tatsuki Makino:
> > > By the way, where is the clever way to update to flavor?
> > > I am using portmaster.
> > 
> > I'm working on FLAVOR support in portmaster. My version did already build
> 
> I wonder if it would make sense to import portmaster into
> FreeBSD SVN. It is a tool targeting the FreeBSD ports tree and
> pkg infrastructure and it looks like it is important for a not
> so small userbase.
> 
> While there are several committers within the contributors (I'm
> not sure if this means they have write access to the repo or if
> it just means that a pull request was accepted), there is more
> or less no progress since 2013 (yes, a few commits there, but
> also useful pull requests for e.g. local package installation
> with pkgng support which are not integrated at all). If we look
> at how widespread the use of portmaster still is (and I'm sure
> there are more people which use it and are more cool-headed and
> just wait if there are some fixes coming for it in the near
> future like it was the case for the pkgng switch), it would
> make sense to have the (as it looks)
> abandoned-on-github-portmaster-version in a FreeBSD controlled
> area.
> 
> Alternatively, how would a FreeBSD committer like Stefan or
> Torsten or me or whoever gain write access to
> https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster/ so get some progress in
> the official portmaster location and create a new release
> (sorry my ignorance for github and how it works, I'm used to
> CVS/SVN workflows)?

They just need to ask git admins to get access, I have already asked Stefan (not
reply yet)

They can also ask me directly if they want given I am part of the git admins

Bapt
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