Need Complete Idiots Guide To Fixing My Ports

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:29:12AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> So the portmaster is nagging me to update my ports to the newfangled ports
> system.  I  glanced at the docs and it looks like way more effort than I
> want to put into it.  I have REALLY simple ports of things like python
> programs and their docs.
> 
> Is there some simple, 4 step process I can apply to my ports without having
> to resort to testing with poudriere and the like?  (Because I won't bother,
> I'll just quit supporting the FreeBSD ports model and release stuff
> on my own website ...)

1) Read https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir, /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.python.mk,
   porters handbook
2) Start with a new empty Makefile, to get rid of all the cruft.
3) Re-write the Makefile with the above references and other Python ports that
were already fixed. If you're not changing a version, you can keep the distinfo.
If you are using distutils, you might not even have to write a pkg-plist.
4) Run `env DEVELOPER=yes make stage && make check-plist && make package` *as
a normal user* and portlint on your new port to test.

I've got some patches for Python-based ports in the queue it you want to have a look at
them;
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191103
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190674

Possibly 190674 is a-typical because this software has a Makefile instead of a
setup.py. This is because I'm combining the script and its dedicated modules into
a single zip-file for convenience.

Roland
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