From nobody Thu Oct 10 02:32:03 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 4XPDL01HsXz5ZM3t for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:32:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) Received: from shell1.rawbw.com (shell1.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4XPDKy3pvzz47yg for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:32:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; spf=softfail (mx1.freebsd.org: 198.144.192.42 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of yuri@FreeBSD.org) smtp.mailfrom=yuri@FreeBSD.org; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, No valid DKIM" header.from=freebsd.org (policy=none) Received: from [192.168.5.3] (c-98-42-44-116.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.42.44.116]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell1.rawbw.com (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id 49A2W4Wq066236 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.rawbw.com: Host c-98-42-44-116.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.42.44.116] claimed to be [192.168.5.3] Message-ID: <2a13db47-1ef4-41d0-9c89-97dbfdaf670b@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 19:32:03 -0700 List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [RFC] New ports category "fs" To: ports@freebsd.org References: Content-Language: en-US From: Yuri In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.72 / 15.00]; VIOLATED_DIRECT_SPF(3.50)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.986]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[freebsd.org : No valid SPF, No valid DKIM,none]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; ONCE_RECEIVED(0.10)[]; XM_UA_NO_VERSION(0.01)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[ports@freebsd.org]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[ports@freebsd.org]; R_SPF_SOFTFAIL(0.00)[~all:c]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7961, ipnet:198.144.192.0/23, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[yuri]; TO_DOM_EQ_FROM_DOM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4XPDKy3pvzz47yg X-Spamd-Bar: / The ports tree would benefit from having more port categories representing meaningful fields some of which are emergent fields. Can we please get the portmgr@ approval for this addition? Thank you, Yuri On 9/28/24 18:09, Robert Clausecker wrote: > Greetings! I have just submitted a pull request adding a new category > "fs" for file systems and file system utilities to the ports > collection. See Github for the full patch set: > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/302 If desired, I can > submit this as a DR or PR as well. The new category is populated with > some 126 ports (that's more than x11-clocks!) that look like they > might be file-system related. I was motivated to add this new category > when I noticed that many FUSE file systems were shipped as ports named > sysutils/fusefs-$foo, making sysutils/fusefs- a pseudo-category for > FUSE filesystems. If that's the (anti) pattern, why not make it > offical and add a true category for file system ports? Turns out there > are a lot more than one might think. I hope that with this move, we > can reduce the load on devel and sysutils (the two most popular > misspellings of misc) and make file-system related ports easier to > find. For a full list of affected ports, see the list of commits > attached to the pull request. If you would like to not have your port > moved to fs, please comment or send me an email. I would like to > kindly ask portmgr to discuss adding the new category and give > approval for me to do so. Yours, Robert Clausecker