XXXsrc 2017 -the record of the past year-
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This document summarizes notable changes and improvements made to the XXXsrc package management system in 2017, including: - Improving package metadata handling and rolling releases - Enhancing built-in package support detection - Adding NPM package support and cleaning up package installation - Checking for maintenance tasks and improving Emacs version handling - Standardizing package mirror configuration and removing copyrighted assets - Splitting system and user configuration settings - Beginning integration of the Trinity Desktop Environment
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- 1. XXXsrc 2017 the record of the past year OBATA Akio Jul. 15th, 2017 2nd XXXsrc report
- 2. What is XXXsrc goodbye pkgsrc unfixed source tree name no organization DIY easy to build & install cross platform rolling release 01 17
- 3. Notable Changes What's up? Topics not from pkgsrc 02 17
- 4. improve pkg_rolling-replace drop dependency on pkg_chk and pkg_tarup try to resolve meta dependency pattern -U trigger rebuild after OS upgrade suppress verbose sleep with message reorder with BUILD_DEPENDS too and bug fixes 03 17
- 5. builtin handling improvement detect builtin with pc files and generate missing fake pc if required record detected include and lib path change to use it for the purpose and bug fixes 04 17
- 6. improve binary package metadata canonicalize BUILTIN_VERSION path better to use hash, not rely on RCS Id more better to use effective build variables record toos as REQUIRES/PROVIDES 05 17
- 7. fix replace target Fix to work with followings UPDATE_TARGET=replace just a bug fix DEPEND_TARGET=replace just a bug fix 06 17
- 8. NPM support basic support npm command should be split off from nodejs 07 17
- 9. pkginstall cleanup kill DESTDIR=no support no need to generate at build stage no temp DATA files detectable because at post-install stage now easy to regen without rebuild and bug fixes broken ocaml-findlib handling misc 08 17
- 10. check-maintainance-tasks check missing/redundant maintainance dynamic check is better than static pkglint supported tasks mime db update desktop db update gschema db update gdk-pixbuf2 loaders GIO modues INFO files and CHECK_FILES_SKIP must not be in PLIST09 17
- 11. Emacs multi version support old style scheme `xemacs-` package suffix for xemacs no prefix for GNU Emacs conflist each other by default always set EMACS_PKGNAME_PREFIX with the type emacs24-, xemacs21-, ... and fix wrong default CONFLISTS usually installed in different path 10 17
- 12. common MASTER_SITES clean up old-style TOO BAD strategy! ramdomly add sites to MASTER_SITES select site randomly from the list projects offers own prefered sites using CDN auto redirector change to only set the url MASTER_SORT_RANDOM=NO by default and make sure to use MASTER_SITES anywhere11 17
- 13. cmake with c wrapper design mismatch with c wrapper cmake add dummy rpath for relink wrapper drop bogus rpath change behabior "skip rpath" kill using own tool at build kill builtin chrpath instead then pkg own built tools are usable and add configure-help support 12 17
- 14. get rid of copyrighted images aim to free BSD Daemon image require permission to use NetBSD flag image Non-commercial use only for NetBSD Foundation/Project way Commercial use require licenses 13 17
- 15. Clean up python modules (wip) remove unwanted buildlink3.mk files dependency clean up drop obsoleted external packages switch to use builtin modules setuptools dependency for egg usually build dependency some package really require runtime 14 17
- 16. Split-off system settings old-style mk.conf from bootstrap contains system value (must not modify) system default (may be modified) user settings change to split system default put default bootstrap setting into a system mk file overwritable with user mk.conf easy to rebootstrap with customized mk.conf then easty to unprivileged (re)bootstrap 15 17
- 17. Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) MATE had been abandoned imported in pkgsrc tree with broken packaging hard to sync it with own fixes CDE is nice but too old design TDE is the successor of KDE3 probably no future big changes ready for library and tools Work in progress 16 17
- 18. never MATOME What is XXXsrc? Where is it? Who is still using it? Had been discontinued? Git is not good for this purpose 17 17