Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 05:34:30 +0000 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: questions about creating new ports Message-ID: <3FB074E6.70801@lonesome.com>
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OK, I have some new ports that I'm looking at and I don't think the answers are in the handbook, or if they are, I'm not totally sure they are up to date with current practice. 1. portlint seems to take exception to dash embedded in portnames. Is this just an attempt to get people not to encode too much version information into portnames, or is this (currently common) practice now deprecated in favor of underbar? 2. I find that several databases I've tried installing on this machine have created directories such as /usr/local/<databasename>. Is this practice now deprecated as well, in favor of splitting the files into bin/, etc/, ...; or is there an exception for certain ports? 3. For ports named similarly in two categories, for which the ports are completely unrelated, does the portname of one of them need to be changed to prefix_portname? e.g. foo/bar and baz/bar, where the portnames are just coincidental, does a new port baz/bar need to be baz_bar? If so, only in the portname, or also in the ports directory hierarchy? Thanks. mcl
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