Port request of a pypi package

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 20/04/2019 1:36 am, Éloi Rivard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am not sure how the FreeBSD community works, and especially the python
> packagers team, so if asking for package is not something one usually does, or
> if the python team has enough work to do, I will totally understand. I was
> thinking that maybe you had some automated tools to create python package from
> pypi, and that would not require a lot of work.
> 
> So, I was playing with sourcehut ( https://sr.ht ) and thinking about helping
> the upstream to create a FreeBSD package. Sourcehut needs the pypi sshpubkeys
> package to work ( https://pypi.org/project/sshpubkeys/ ).
> 
> Is it something easilly done?
> 
> Thank you

Hi! Thanks for reaching out

There's no perfectly automated tool, but there is pytoport:

https://github.com/freebsd/pytoport

Porting is relatively easy, without automated tools, depending of course 
on individual packaging complexity, like dependencies, etc.

If upstream follows standard python packaging standards well, its much 
easier.

Jump on #freebsd-python on freenode IRC and we can discuss if further 
there, my nickname is koobs