www/joomla3 port installs from GitHub, why?

Per olof Ljungmark peo at nethead.se
Mon May 21 06:46:42 UTC 2018


On 05/21/18 01:49, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2018, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> 
>> On 05/20/18 21:15, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>>> 21.05.2018 2:02, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> 
>> OK, I'll try to explain a bit more.
>>
>> Firstly, this port is PHP code and needs no compilation, so they are
>> both source files. NO_BUILD=       yes
>>
>> www/wordpress is a similar port, correctly implemented in the ports
>> tree, if you install it from ports you will have identical result to
>> downloading from wordpress.org and extract it manually.
>>
>> The difference as stated above, is that the FreeBSD port includes the
>> files for *development* of Joomla, the official download has all the
>> files necessay to build a website based on Joomla.
>>
>> It may be that there are people using FreeBSD to develop Joomla, then of
>> course this port are for them, although a more proper naming would be
>> joomla3-devel or somesuch.
> 
> joomla-devel would kind of imply that you're installing the "devel"
> version of it, not that it includes the devel LIBS.  This seems to be a
> standard wording for ports (see locate /usr/ports/ | grep \\\-devel |
> grep pkg-descr | xargs cat )
> 
> What makes more sense to me is that the Dev files would be part of a
> non-default option -- whether that's included with the normal .tar.gz or
> requires the github copy, I can't say.

That sounds as a good solution - both are available at Github - will try
to suggest a patch.



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