[Cucumber-linux-development] Final New Buildscript Format Imported into Ports Tree

[Scott C. <sc...@cu...>]

Hello All,

The *buildscript-buildinfo format* has been officially adopted as the
new buildscript format for Cucumber Linux 2.0. It has also been imported
into the ports tree
(https://github.com/cucumberlinux/ports/tree/master/utilities/templates/cucumber-buildinfo).
From now on, all modifications to the buildscript/buildinfo format will
occur in the ports tree; the repository
https://github.com/cucumberlinux/new-buildscript-format is now defunct.

If you look around the ports tree, you will see that I've written
buildinfo files for a couple of packages: iptables and iproute2. I
converted the iptables.buildscript file from Cucumber Linux 1.1 to the
buildinfo format. The process was quite easy and iptables appears to be
working fine after being built with it. We can probably script this
process for when we convert the entire Cucumber Linux 1.1 source tree to
the buildinfo format.

Additionally, I have written a tool to aid in *generating buildinfo
files*
(https://github.com/cucumberlinux/ports/blob/master/utilities/tools/generate-cucumber-buildinfo-template)
and *exhaustive documentation* on the buildinfo format
(https://github.com/cucumberlinux/ports/blob/master/utilities/documentation/cucumber-buildinfo).
I strongly recommend you read through the documentation and one or two
examples before you begin writing buildinfo files.

If anyone is *looking for something to do*, I would recommend writing
some buildinfo files for packages not found in the binary distribution.
This has the dual benefit of helping to build up our ports tree and
helping to test out the new format. Once you've written and tested them,
submit a pull request to the ports repository.

Right now I'm in the process of writing a tool to automate the process
of building packages from the ports tree and handling dependency
resolution. Expect an email about that this weekend.

    - Scott