Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:38:21 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Versionless ports Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970804122754.17562L-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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I was just putting together ports for the handbook and FAQ which
raised two issues:
1. The documents don't have distinct versions---grabbing the
source from ftp.freebsd.org grabs a current snapshot. What
I've done is just use the current date (YYYYMMDD) as the
port/package version:
PKGNAME!= date -u "+handbook-%Y%m%d"
The problem, is that once the source file is cached in the
distfiles directory, a "make" won't fetch the latest version.
The md5 checksum is currently ignored---updating it every
time the handbook changes would be unpleasant.
2. The PLIST for these ports cannot be known in advance, so I
build the plist (in ${WRKDIR}) immediately after installing,
before registering. Is there any problem with doing this?
3. Where should these "document" ports live?
-john
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