Re: [NEW] Script for semi-automatic mount/umount operations

Weekly ping. Anyone interested?

Tarball re-attached.

Cheers

On 08/11/2020 04:20, Alessandro De Laurenzis wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is the proposal for a new port: sysutils/amount
>
> Disclaimer: I know that this kind of scripts are hardly ever accepted by
> OpenBSD community, nonetheless I use it on a daily basis and find it
> very handy.
>
>  From DESCR:
>> amount is an OpenBSD specific, POSIX compliant shell script to manage
>> removable devices; it presents a list of available partitions, and
>> (un)mount them upon user request. A few commands used by amount require
>> special permissions (mount(8), umount(8), disklabel(8), fsck(8) ...), so
>> it should be run as root
> I'm the author of the script; I tried to make it as close to the OpenBSD
> quality standard as I could, keeping it simple, but flexible enough to
> be adaptable to users' taste; it can be considered an alternative to the
> use of hotplugd, when full control of mount/unmount operations is desired.
>
> Port-wise, the Makefile is very simple; I tried to add "PKG_ARCH = *",
> but it triggers an error during "make package" and since I don't know if
> it is really needed, I didn't investigate further; please advice in case
> I should re-add it.
>
> I would appreciate hearing your opinion on both the port and (most
> important) the code style of the script (and the man page); see [1].
>
> Any feedback welcome.
>
> All the best
>
> [1] https://github.com/just22/amount
>

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