Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:47:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@ppp1643.on.sympatico.ca> To: James Raynard <jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/4304 ports Recommendation re. Ports Collection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971013223928.248E-100000@ppp1643.on.sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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[cc adjusted off -committers] [subj changed from "Administrative notice: 8 days to 2.2.5"] On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, James Raynard wrote: > I know this is probably too late for 2.2.5, but I thought it might be > worth mentioning anyway. What do people think to putting the size of > the tarball somewhere in the skeleton for each port? This would be See the pr o [1997/08/14] ports/4304 ports Recommendation re. Ports Collection It should have a rather lengthy follow-up by me discussing the idea. > Something along the lines of:- > > --- bsd.port.mk Mon Oct 13 20:07:19 1997 > +++ bsd.port.mk.new Mon Oct 13 20:18:53 1997 > @@ -389,6 +389,8 @@ > MD5?= md5 > .endif > MD5_FILE?= ${FILESDIR}/md5 > +LS?= ls -s > +SIZES_FILE?= ${FILESDIR}/sizes It would go over better if you could conceive of a way to do this without adding another files/file file. Oddly enough, though, I was just thinking that ports/4304 should be closed RSN unless someone coughed-up some code... -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
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