Hi all, I have been working for a while on 2 long standing feature request for the ports tree: flavors and subpackages.
For flavors I would like to propose a simple approach first which is more like a rework of the slave ports for now: Examples available here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8840 (with the implementation) and https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8843 Design: introduce a 3rd level in the hierarchy and make it work a bit like slave ports pros: - all slave ports are self hosted under the same directory: easier for maintenance - should work with all existing tools cons: - hackish: it is not really much more than a slave port - it adds plenty of new Makefiles :( I think anyway this is an improvement Next step after that is in would be to extend it to allow some dependency on "I depend on whatever flavor if port X" Subpackages: Design: Add a new macro MULTI_PACKAGES flag plist with an @pkg{suffixofthesubpackage} file the framework will split the plist into small plist and create all the packages All variables like COMMENT can be overridden with a COMMENT_${suffixofthesubpackage} pros: - simple and working almost now - allow to simplify lots of ports - options friendly (<optionname>_PACKAGE automatically appends a new entry to MULTI_PACKAGES) cons: - will break the paradigm that certain tools depend on (portmaster/portupgrade in particular are a huge problem since they are not actively maintained) Example of the usage: https://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/multipackage.diff Note that I took the mpg123 as an example because it was a simple one to test not because it may need subpackages As a result you build 3 packages: mpg123 (the runtime tools) mpg123-lib: the runtime libraries mpg123-sndio: the sndio plugin LIB_DEPENDS on ports depending on libmpg123.so does not have to be changed, the framework already automatically register only the mpg123-lib as a dependency and not others. Not the example is missing one thing: a dependency between mpeg123-lib and mpg123 The second is not ready yet and would take time to land Any comment? Best regards, Bapt
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