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On Tue, 2023-01-24 at 16:51 +0100, Adrian Schollmeyer wrote: |
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> Hey there, |
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> a while back Jonas Licht (Cc) wrote an eclass for Nginx dynamic modules. |
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> For a few years now, Nginx supports building third party dynamic modules |
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> outside of the Nginx source tree with the help of Nginx's build system. |
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> Since this involves quite some work to obtain information from the Nginx |
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> build configuration and using Nginx's build system to actually build the |
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> module, an eclass was written. The last RFC didn't make it into |
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> ::gentoo, since the requested changes haven't been applied. |
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> However, we have been working on the eclass again and applied all the |
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> requested changes, made it EAPI=8 compatible and were able to use it |
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> successfully to package a third party Nginx module in ::fem-overlay [0]. |
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> This patchset contains the reworked nginx-module.eclass for building |
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> third party modules using Nginx's build system as separate packages. |
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> Furthermore the category www-nginx is added where these third party |
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> modules shall be put. Lastly, www-nginx/nginx-vod-module is added as a |
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> first package using this eclass. |
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> The patchset is also available as PR #16053 on GitHub [1]. If this |
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> patchset is applied, the other PR for adding nginx-vod-module [2] |
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> probably becomes obsolete [2]. |
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> |
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How many packages do you expect to add to this new category? It's not |
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customary to create a new category for one package. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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