minetest PKG questionary

[Zweihorn (@Zweihorn)]

Need help and advice as new "minetest" maintainer please.

Want to produce a "minetest" PKG package with MacPorts to be distributed independently on a regular basis. MT Players are normal people who mainly appreciate a plug-and-play install certainly on Mac OS X / macOS platform, I presume.

Questionary:

Q1: How to put extra documentary into the PKG without changing the source?

Q1.1: How to display an Introduction text by PKG-Installer by extra documentary added to the port?

Q1.2: Where to put this extra documentary files and will a post-destroot in the Portfile be sufficient?

Q1.3: Where to find available documentary providing Q1.1/2 answers?

Q1.4: Is there a reasonable and optional way to do the above without port command if MacPorts does not support the a.m. request?

Q1.5: Where to find available documentary providing Q1.4 answers?

AFAIK making some package seems to be straightforward but the Guide is a little short on details and options:

• ​https://guide.macports.org/#using.binaries.binary-packages

Installing additional documentation files is described in the Wiki but IMO does not answer Q1 sufficiently:

• ​https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#doc

Any help and advice would be highly appreciated.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

If you want to augment what port pkg does, you can add a pre-pkg or post-pkg block. There are a few ports in the collection that do so already; you can grep the Portfiles to find them to see if they inspire you.

port file all | sort -u | xargs grep -E '(pre|post)-pkg'

[Zweihorn (@Zweihorn)]

First things first, but when the b.m. PR gets a positive review then we will see what to PKG...

• ​https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/17241