CRUXCon 2005 Results

(notes from Johannes Winkelmann)

project merge

• move to subversion with trac as wiki/issue tracker
• create a core group which picks up certain ports from Per

ports

• new collection, 'core', for ports which go on the install ISO
• merge former contrib into 'opt'
• add dependencies to all ports except gcc and glibc
• define a list of ports not to be removed; select them in setup automatically (gcc, glibc, make etc.)
• use $(uname -r) in version= for ports of kernel modules

package management

• use fakeroot/pretendroot env (2.x)
• support "INSTALL" (IGNORE?) tag in pkgadd.conf for icons, desktop files and such (2.x)

  INSTALL .*\.desktop NO
  INSTALL ^usr/share/bash-completion/.* NO

• consider downloading into a temporary directory, to handle the sf failure better
• issue a warning after pkgadd if there are rejected files in /var/lib/pkg/rejected
• warn if a user tries to remove a critical port
• Provide test scripts to verify Pkgfiles, checking for unsafe rm's, statements outside build() etc
• move pkgutils and prt-get to a common codebase (3.x)
• new Pkgfile format/support attributes (3.x)

Future releases

• provide additional ISOs with packages, e.g. pkgsync'able
• 2.2 with udev, look into alternatives

New contrib

• launch as 'contrib' together with the switch to SVN based ports tree
• recruit trusted maintainers for now
• introduce further security measures (to be determined) before opening it up completely

Misc

• rubygems Port-Template: good idea, check whether similar things would be good for python and perl as well
• Try to support subprojects with revision control, mailing lists, wiki pages if appropriate
• $PKGMK_{SOURCE,PACKAGE}_DIR remains $PWD by default for now
• Announce next year's CRUXCon earlier to allow more developers to attend
• Ask for alternative trac designs
• CRUX maintainers get crux.nu e-mail addresses (forwards); this allows to filter crux related mail easily

Top priorities post cruxcon

• multi architecture support