Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 03:13:19 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> To: Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Done with this port Message-ID: <537D4F2F.1070203@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: <20140521233324.3180ab5e@raksha.tavi.co.uk> References: <13C1124873A73216958EF496@localhost> <537BA4B0.80400@FreeBSD.org> <75E908F4C5C8BF9E3CEC47D8@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <537C355E.5090507@gmx.de> <537D2188.7060508@astart.com> <20140521233324.3180ab5e@raksha.tavi.co.uk>
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Bob Eager wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:58:32 -0700 > Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> wrote: > > >> Mathias, I think that brief description of how you did this would be >> VERY useful to some of us looking at this problem and not knowing >> where to start. Perhaps an: 'this is the way it was' and a 'this is >> the way it should be' document would be good. Or even a list of >> links to 'helpful hints' documents. >> > > Looking at already-done ports is good. > > Someone has kindly done one of mine for me so I did a diff on that. > Pretty simple example but gives you the idea. > > FWIW, the port in question is textproc/ml1 > Just as a comment to this - I did my first the other day and most of my time spent trying to decipher the messages of how to make them 'go away' ... First was the fact I couldn't seem to find any documentation on pkg-plist - what it is, what should be in it etc... Second was the 'Orphaned' vs 'Missing' messages - especially as I had followed the docs and couldn't (for 12 hours) find the fact that putting in "PORTDOCS" settings you remove the corresponding entries in the pkg-plist file... That all said - I don't know how one would make it easier to 'get' as most of the docs are very explicit.. with the exception of documenting pkg-plist (or making it googleable.) my $0.02.. ;-) -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/
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