From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Mar 20 17: 1:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cfcl.com (cfcl.com [140.174.42.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F5414E21 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) X-Sent-To: Received: from ip030.cfcl.com (cerberus.cfcl.com [140.174.42.30]) by cfcl.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA12084 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:03:29 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:03:06 -0800 To: ports@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Subject: Ports Collection nits Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Guise- I am using the Ports Collection as a major source of input data for a developmental online information service. As I work on this, I will be finding assorted problems in the Collection. Here is the first installment of general notes; let me know if I am using the wrong addressee, if you don't want to hear about this stuff, etc. Also, if I come up with (putatively :-) cleaner COMMENTS and DESCR files, should I send them to the MAINTAINER email address, to this address, or both? (Of course, if no MAINTAINER is listed, I'll use this address. :-) The snapshot I discuss below was downloaded from ftp.cdrom.com on 19990318. If you want a copy of the (rather primitive :-) script I am using to check things out, let me know... * Quite a few of the path names from the second and fourth fields of the INDEX file (e.g., .../print/c2ps-a4/../c2ps-letter/pkg/DESCR) contain the string "../". This seems unnecessarily convoluted. Is there a functional reason for this or is it just an artifact (e.g., of a moved directory or a spin-off package)? * Some of the directory names listed in INDEX do not exist in the downloaded archive: /usr/ports/games/pente /usr/ports/japanese/yatex /usr/ports/japanese/yatex-xemacs /usr/ports/net/ircd-hybrid-5 /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-gtk * The DESCR file for /usr/ports/net/ascend-radius is empty. -r P.S. I plan to write up the Ports Collection in "Silicon Carny" (my column in SunWorld Online). Whoever wants to play at being a critic of _my_ work should let me know... -- Rich Morin: rdm@cfcl.com, +1 650-873-7841, http://www.ptf.com/~rdm Prime Time Freeware: info@ptf.com, +1 408-433-9662, http://www.ptf.com MacPerl: http://www.ptf.com/macperl, http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/MPPE MkLinux: http://www.mklinux.apple.com, http://www.ptf.com/ptf/products/MKLP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message