From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Mar 28 0:41:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (stampede.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.45.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED4114BF6 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 00:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from bubble.didi.com ([207.92.173.144]) by stampede.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA12170; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 00:41:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by bubble.didi.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) id VAA01750; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:11:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:11:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903280511.VAA01750@bubble.didi.com> X-Authentication-Warning: bubble.didi.com: asami set sender to asami@cs.berkeley.edu using -f To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <19990327165750.A68075@rucus.ru.ac.za> (message from Neil Blakey-Milner on Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:57:50 +0000) Subject: Re: CVSup and Fetch From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi "the Wraith" Asami) References: <199903261302.IAA19553@istari.home.net> <199903261348.FAA18790@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327152150.A57118@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903271329.FAA22229@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327165750.A68075@rucus.ru.ac.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Neil Blakey-Milner * > You are vastly underestimating the magnitude of the problem. :) * * Perhaps, but I think we'd better make sure people don't start getting * irritated because they have to use upgrade kits too often. Do you know how often bsd.port.mk changes? :) We're talking people who are tracking ports-current here. If they are cvsupping the ports tree, I don't think asking them to fetch an upgrade kit (at most) once a month is going to annoy that much. (Also it's only if you aren't making world yourself.) * Enough of a lot of theoretical waffle (hmm... foood), if there's any * interest, I have no problems following up with patches and code. I think you should go read the mail archives. Or the cvs logs. ;> * (also, on a final note, would people be interested in my patches that add * functionality to pkg_* and bsd.port.mk to handle LICENSE files or variables, * considering package system rewrites?) How does it work? What I would like to see is something like, say, a LICENSE variable in the port Makefiles that takes either a full pathname ("${PREFIX}/share/doc/foobaz/license") or one of the pre-determined values ("BSD"/"GPL"/etc.). They will be stored inside packages as "+LICENSE". bsd.port.mk can be made to pass an extra argument to pkg_create for this. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message