From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 08:53:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D16106564A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71818FC0A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gate.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.123] helo=h30.sp.ipt.ru) by services.ipt.ru with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1QuKpe-000GKj-OT; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:53:38 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov To: "Helmut Schneider" References: Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:53:37 +0400 In-Reply-To: (Helmut Schneider's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:11:22 +0000 (UTC)") Message-ID: <81610638@h30.sp.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:41 -0000 Hi! On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Helmut Schneider wrote: > I've been told that dynamic pkg-plists are bad or at least should be > avoided=C2=B4at most costs. > Now, all my patches for Typo3 seem blocked by a "SPAM Filter" or at > least take 2 days until I get reply. See PR159878-81, I submitted the > patches on tuesday. > So, what should I do? Still create full pkg-plists and hope that the > patch passes the FreeBSD PR system or fall back to dynamic pkg-plists? You may try to reduce pkg-plist changes. Are you speaking about www/typo* ports? If yes, those ports have hardcoded PORTVERSION at pkg-plist. One can use make variables to dramatically reduce pkg-plist changes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist.htm= l#PLIST-SUB --=20 WBR, bsam