Where should "contrib" scripts and utilities be installed?

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:54:49PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote:
>> The existence of ports with a "-contrib" suffix suggests you may  
>> need to
>> create a distinct port for the contrib files.  databases/postgresql- 
>> contrib,
>> for example.

> Actually, that is not strictly necessary.  There are other ports that
> do things in slightly different ways:
> - some things in contrib/ are merely documentation snippets that
>  belong in share/doc/$PACKAGE, as Jeffery suggested
> - some things in contrib/ are sample additions, implementations,  
> clients,
>  add-ons and such that *might* belong in share/examples/$PACKAGE
> - some things in contrib/ are scripts, clients, add-ons and such that
>  might also belong in libexec/$PACKAGE (if they are executable files)
>  or share/$PACKAGE (if they are not... I can't think of any examples
>  right now, but there might be)
> - some things in contrib/ are really best left in a separate port :)

I was hoping that I wouldn't have to think at all.  Now it looks like  
I will have to think about where each bit belongs.  Oh, well.

> For rsnapshot itself - erm, I don't see a contrib/ directory in
> its source; do you mean the utils/ directory, or are you looking at
> some version that is not in the Ports Collection yet? :)

Sorry.  Yes, I was thinking of the utils directory.

> If it is
> utils/ that you mean, then, well, it's actually your choice - the  
> things
> there seem to be little scripts that may live in $EXAMPLESDIR, may
> live in libexec/rsnapshot/, and may live in a separate rsnapshot-utils
> port.  Either way would be fine, at least IMHO.

OK.  I'll just pick one and send the pr to the port maintainer who may  
pick some other location.

Cheers,

-j



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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/