From nobody Sun Jan 21 17:13:02 2024 X-Original-To: ports@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TJ0Lz0hSvz57KrY for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:14:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ros@bebik.net) Received: from smtp.osorio.me (mvd.osorio.me [5.196.94.126]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TJ0Lx6DSxz49Qn for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:14:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ros@bebik.net) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of ros@bebik.net designates 5.196.94.126 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ros@bebik.net Received: from [192.168.1.66] (lfbn-idf1-1-182-47.w82-124.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.124.31.47]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-384) server-digest SHA384) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.osorio.me (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5AD341F2D90 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2024 17:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <8bcbd8c0-2e31-4242-9eb5-51530a6f84e5@bebik.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:13:02 +0100 List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird From: Rodrigo Osorio Subject: Re: Call for help: moving manpages to share/man To: ports@freebsd.org References: <037984e5-d7de-4ea5-91ab-a4d90a7bb004@gwdg.de> Content-Language: en-US, fr, es-AR In-Reply-To: <037984e5-d7de-4ea5-91ab-a4d90a7bb004@gwdg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.09 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.999]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; ONCE_RECEIVED(0.10)[]; XM_UA_NO_VERSION(0.01)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16276, ipnet:5.196.0.0/16, country:FR]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[bebik.net]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[ports@freebsd.org]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[ports@freebsd.org]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4TJ0Lx6DSxz49Qn On 21/01/24 17:44, Rainer Hurling wrote: > Am 21.01.24 um 11:19 schrieb Gleb Popov: >> Ahoy there fellow porters! >> >> portmgr@ is currently working on switching the directory into which >> man pages are installed from "${PREFIX}/man" to "${PREFIX}/share/man". >> It is quite a tedious process, as you might imagine. More than that, >> changing the default for a given build system instantly breaks all >> ports that use it, which means that this task can't be done >> incrementally in the main branch. >> >> I've created a branch [1] in my own fork that switches mandir for the >> autotools build system and am inviting everyone to collaborate on >> that, until all the fallout is fixed. I'm asking port maintainers to >> check if they have ports with the "GNU_CONFIGURE=yes" knob, as these >> are most likely broken by the switch. Moin kindly prepared a list of >> affected ports along with their maintainers (thanks Moin!) [2] >> >> In the most simple case you'll only need to change the pkg-plist, as I >> did in this example commit [3]. Make sure to bump PORTREVISION as >> we're altering the package's contents by this change. Also put the >> "Approved by: portmgr (blanket)" tag in the commit message, as the >> whole initiative was approved by the portmgr@ group. >> >> If you want to collaborate either create a pull request on GH against >> my branch or just send me a git format-patch output for your change. >> >> Thanks beforehand to everyone going to help! >> >> [1] https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/tree/autotools-mandir >> [2] http://arrowd.name/manprefix-fail.maintainer.txt >> [3] >> https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/commit/cc288e9b742cd54640e06737334dd57d88d45f6d >> > > > Ahoy, dear skipper! > > Thank you for all the work you and others put into this change. > > I am represented in Moin's list with three ports (maintainer rhurlin), > all three of which are 'pure' Python ports: > > - astro/py-ephem > - textproc/py-python-lsp-jsonrpc > - textproc/py-whatthepatch  (waiting for an update of setuptools) > > All three ports do not generate any man pages. So I don't understand > why they are included in the list. Or is it different if autotools is > used? > > Thanks in advance for any clarification. > > Best wishes from a crew member, > Rainer > Hi, Just a reminder :p you can also obtain an updated list of ports to be updated using the following command pkg provides "^/usr/local/man" Cheers -- Rodrigo