Wednesday, November 03, 2021

Re: Want to submit a port for BadWolf browser

Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> writes:

> Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com> writes:
>
>> Adnan Shameem <adnan360@protonmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I thought packaging BadWolf, a lightweight, minimalistic,
>>> privacy-oriented WebKitGTK based web browser for OpenBSD would be
>>> nice. So I made a port for it (attached).
>>>
>>> Please let me know if there are any changes necessary.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> couple of comments:
>>
>> - no need to set EXTRACT_SUFX, is the default
>>
>> - upstream provides a distribution tarball on their site, so use that
>> instead of the auto-generated from gitlab
>>
>> - why use 1.0.3 when the latest is 1.2.0
>>
>> - *_DEPENDS are usually one per line
>>
>> - devel/libsoup was missing from LIB_DEPENDS
>>
>> - missing RDEP on gtk+3
>>
>> - don't roll our own do-install (and add USE_GMAKE)
>>
>> - pkg/DESCR is a bit short, it should describe a bit more what the
>> package is and does, but I'm not a good writer so I've left it as-is,
>> apologies
>>
>> - set CONFIGURE_STYLE to simple (how did you managed to build the
>> port?)
>>
>> - teach the port the correct place for manpages ($PREFIX/man and not
>> share/man).
>>
>> quickly tested and seems to work. A bit spartan maybe, but I like the
>> buttons to toggle images and javascript.
>>
>> Note: while there is a test target, I've left the NO_TESTS=Yes because
>> that target is meant for hacking on the browser itself (it calls mandoc
>> -Tlint on the manpage and shellcheck on the configure.)
>>
>> I'm attaching an updated tarball
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Omar Polo
>
> now with tweaked DOCDIR and the patch to version.sh from Stuart. The
> other patch doesn't seem to be needed with the latest version.

...and with the missing update-desktop-database tag

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