Categories: Development

TODO list for CRUX 3.7.1 (or 3.8)

Ports

reconsider the default Mail Transport Agent: something more lightweight than exim will satisfy the majority of use cases. Or don't include any MTA in core, since our default cron daemon has the -M switch to obviate the need for /usr/sbin/sendmail (but this feature needs to be documented if we ship crontabs with our core ports).
in '/etc/rc' use a better algorithm to seed /dev/urandom
in '/etc/rc' consider protecting all mount commands behind a /bin/mountpoint test, for users who configure a multi-stage boot process
in '/etc/rc.conf' consider introducing a variable for the screen blanking time
toolchain updates: gcc 13, binutils, glibc, python3

drop python2
formulate a better definition of what belongs in opt, and what should be moved to contrib

move xorg-libpixman to the opt collection, for easier setup of a headless machine with the xorg collection deactivated
build mesa with dynamically-configured value for vulkan-drivers (currently hard-coded as amd,intel), similar to how PKGMK_MESA_GALLIUM and PKGMK_MESA_PLATFORMS are defined

remove the code that handles md5 checksums
settle on a single, more elegant method to prevent tarballs from being extracted automatically (the renames array is almost as cumbersome as redefining unpack_source)
verify the signature of Pkgfile before sourcing it
consider the possibility to handle git sources natively
fix the symlink handling in pkgadd

allow transactions to use the Optional line in the Pkgfile header (current behaviour is to consider only hard dependencies)
improve the argument parsing when a mix of installed and not-installed ports is given (merging 'install' and 'update', perhaps?)
consider enabling dependency resolution by default, and letting the user disable it with the --nodeps switch (in June 2008 jw provided some historical notes about managing dependencies to justify such a change)
update the man-page: drop all references to nonexistent ports, and show practical examples of pipelines
ensure that whitespace separates the port name from the version, when 'diff' detects version differences in ports of more than 20 characters (FS#1930)
respect --install-root when pre- or post-install scripts are enabled (bug report by emmett1)

decide how to deal with upstream projects that no longer bundle pre-generated man-pages
- Option 1: never side-load from a third-party source (which might be out of sync with upstream), but generate man-pages from the provided formats if the necessary software is present
- Option 2: side-load third-party man-pages from Arch or Void (which have a reputation of staying up-to-date) in case the conversion software (pandoc, python3-sphinx) is not present
- Option 3: ??