Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 11:38:16 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports Message-ID: <0A94C622-AFC5-44AD-A79A-6372EFEAE31E@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060527205224.U1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420605220528k1be0bc03t1c74c6c8e08f35b4@mail.gmail.com> <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <20060527205224.U1114@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 28/05/2006, at 9:53 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2006, Conor McDermottroe wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}. We
>>> now have a nice document about "what it means to be a
>>> maintainer", so
>>> I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.
>>
>> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
>> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to
>> maintain
>> them?
>
> Some method of making it easier to build a pkg-plist would help
> also ... unless I've missed it along the way? I think that that is
> the part of updating ports I maintain that I hate the most, and one
> reason why I avoid ones that install alot of files :(
Tinderbox (misc/tinderbox) will catch plist and other errors. It's
great, if you can run it. I used to run sysutils/ftrace to watch the
install, and diff the list of installed files against the temporary
packing list generated by the port. sysutils/pkg_trackinst is
available as well (no idea how good it is).
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