gnomish port -- a review please?

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:28:05PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:24:37 -0500, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I'm currently trying out Gnome DE again after several years, as well as
> >porting several apps for It.  Since all those gconf schemas, desktop  
> >entries
> >et al. are sort of new for me, can someone with gnome@ hat glance over
> >attached port?  Things I'm not sure about:
> 
> Your attach port doesn't make it to the list. Upload it in freefall would  
> be best.

Oops, sorry for that.  It's in my ~ on ff.

> 
> >  - Do I need "gnomeprefix" and alike, or they are not necessary here?
> 
> Depend on what your port has. If your port has gconf or/and other stuff  
> that need to be install in share/gnome, then gnomeprefix is a must and  
> might be gnomehack as well.
> 
> >  - Did I get all the paths correctly?
> 
> Since your attach doesn't make it, so you can take a look at  
> ports/misc/gnomehier/files/dirlist to help you with it. Be sure to check  
> on gnomehack in bsd.gnome.mk too.
> 
> >  - I've noticed "@exec %%LOCALBASE%%/bin/update-desktop-database" lines
> >    in PLISTs of number of ports, does having a .desktop file in PLIST
> >    means I have to add those as well?
> 
> No, just depend on if *.desktop has MimeType line in it. Make sure if your  
> port's installation stuff does run update-desktop-database. If not, then  
> be sure to run it by manual in post-patch.
> 
> # grep MimeType /usr/local/share/applications/gedit.desktop
> MimeType=text/plain;
> 
> >  - It seems that with Gnome, it's rather hard to make sure everything
> >    will install/deinstall/work correctly in case LOCALBASE != PREFIX.
> >    In fact, I'm seeing that many ports, including those under courtesy
> >    of gnome@, are silenty assume this asserting is true.  So, should I
> >    bother diligently creating and then @dirrmtry'ing all needed
> >    directories, or just assume it's all there?
> 
> If you have all stuff installed in LOCALBASE, but a port install in  
> different prefix by custom PREFIX then it might or might not work. Just  
> depend on what your port has. GNOME works best if everything is in a same  
> prefix.
> 
> >  - Anything else I missed along the way?
> 
> There has GNOME port manual over at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ (current  
> www.freebsd.org is down).. If there is anything that we have missed or not  
> clear enough for you, let us know and we can try to make it better.
> 
> You can check  
> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portstools/auto-plist/ ,  
> it works great with GTK/GNOME ports. The auto-plist will adding  
> update-desktop-database in plist for you if it needs and other stuff such  
> as update-mime-database and etc.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

./danfe