From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 10:34:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23578 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23570 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 10:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ah21762; 9 Jul 96 17:34 GMT Received: from longacre.demon.co.uk ([158.152.156.24]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa26199; 9 Jul 96 18:03 +0100 From: Michael Searle Message-ID: To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports suggestion References: <199607090030.RAA04449@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 11:43:37 BST X-Mailer: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org wrote: > Gary Chrysler wrote in message ID <31E191F8.20CD@ime.net>: >> Aye, I kinda like that, Although not many of the ports I have added >> have the packing list. (As you called it) > They are ALL meant to have them, as that is how the packages are built > ... if they just have subdirectories in them (which some do, and is a > bit of a cheat), then they should be fixed to have complete packing > lists ... otherwise you cannot pkg_delete them :-( I think this is is a problem with the pkg_delete (it is doing rm, not rm -r), not a cheat - there are some ports with _hundreds_ of files, often in a single directory /usr/local/lib/fatport. Unless there is some reason why it is like this? The only reason I can see is mistakes in the PLIST being more likely to do bad things, but using the cwd should prevent this (the absolute worst that could happen is nuking /usr/local and having to reinstall all the packages from the CD.) -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk