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Date:      Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:59:36 +0200
From:      Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@gmail.com>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Syntax of the INDEX file
Message-ID:  <20060213105935.GA48070@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
In-Reply-To: <43EF32C3.5040503@gmail.com>
References:  <43EF32C3.5040503@gmail.com>

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:06:11PM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a question concerning the syntax of the index file at the top of 
> the ports tree.
> 
> I read in a comment in bsd.port.mk (line 4827) that it should look like 
> this:
> 
> distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \
> description-file|maintainer|categories|extract-depends| \
> patch-depends|fetch-depends|build-depends|run-depends|www site
> 
> However, this is not the case. I found out empirically that it looks 
> like this:
> 
> distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \
> description-file|maintainer|categories|build-depends| \
> run-depends|www site|extract-depends|patch-depends|fetch-depends
> 
> Is that correct?
> 

Both are correct.

The line you have found in bsd.port.mk (line 4809 in version 1.524)
is about `make describe' output rather than the contents of the INDEX
file.

When creating the INDEX file the output of all the `make describe'
commands is passed to Tools/make_index which reorders the fields.

- -- 
Vasil Dimov
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