2014/1/7 FreeBSD Ports Management Team Secretary < portmgr-secret...@freebsd.org>
> In years gone by, and I am thinking of FreeBSD 7.0 specifically, portmgr@ > gave some latitude to *ALL* committers to "just fix things" to get a port > into shape. In the case of 7.0, it was making ports build for gcc4. > > What we have laying ahead of us is a ports tree in various states of modern > preparedness (new style USES=, stagefication, etc) and the old way of doing > ports (boo!). > > We would like committers, and contributors to generate a PR and/or "just > fix" the old ports to update them to the new way of doing things regardless > of maintainership. We are looking for fixes in the following areas > > - Convert to LIB_DEPENDS > - stagify ports > - convert things like USE_GMAKE -> USES=gmake USE_DOS2unix -> USES=dos2unix > etc. > > This can be done with implicit portmgr@ blanket approval, and without > maintainer approval. > > Please, however, respect some boundaries, do not change ports belonging to > kde@, gnome@ or x11@. These teams work in private repos that may have > changes pending. > > Also, cross reference GNATS, to see if a port has an open PR that you can > factor into the fix. It is important to stress here that we *DO NOT* want > to invalidate existing patches that a maintainer has offered up or already > approved. > > If the change is very trivial AND has been tested, "just fix it". One of > the strengths of the Ports Collection is it's volunteer maintainers, if you > make a change, regardless of how trivial, just send a courtesy email to the > maintainer. > Hello all. I made list of ports which have USE_* in them, here's link: http://gits.kiev.ua/ports/ports-use.txt (plain) http://gits.kiev.ua/ports/ports-use.txt.xz (compressed) There's two parts in file - simple stats about which USE_* how often totally appears in ports; And second - for each that USE_* list of ports. I'm supposing these USE_* -> USES conversion vary in difficulty, so I thought if someone discovers some easy one, it better be to have list of ports it's used in immediately, so it can be massively fixed. Happy hacking to all :) > > > http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/01/07/blanket-approval-to-modernize-the-ports-tree/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Alexander Yerenkow _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"