From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 19:28:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2BC16A41F; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:28:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B9543D64; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:28:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8C51A3C28; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C517B52529; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:28:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:28:38 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alexey Dokuchaev Message-ID: <20051130192838.GB76056@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200511301349.jAUDnfoO032739@repoman.freebsd.org> <1133358970.85111.16.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20051130140838.GA49598@FreeBSD.org> <20051130141600.GB79912@voodoo.bawue.com> <20051130144542.GA51725@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051130144542.GA51725@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kirill Ponomarew , Pav Lucistnik , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/asmutils Makefile distinfo pkg-descr X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:28:41 -0000 --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:45:42PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:08:38PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > What's so filthy about mkdirs? I personally enjoy seeing them in the > > > > typescripts. > > >=20 > > > I agree there's a fair amount of controversy with muting mkdir's. Ba= ck > > > when I started porting things, I've observed that most ports actually > > > muted those, so I followed that style. Since there's no general rule > > > right, I felt like keeping my ports consistent WRT this. Again, I mu= st > > > say that I would be rather pleased if we'd finally come to an agreeme= nt, > > > with appropriate sentence in Porter Handbook. > >=20 > > You wanna get an entry in PH whether to mute or not MKDIR's ? It > > just smells like another-useless-policy-request. It's just a matter > > of taste if you want to hide dirs creation or not. >=20 > Not a request, but rather suggestion or some soft guide-line, and not > only about MKDIR, but also CHOWN/CHMOD and other "non-purely-install" > things. Since we're sweep thru patch: target silently, REINPLACE_CMD's > should be muted as well (and in fact, that makes the trush right now). The guideline is "be sensible". Muting simple commands is fine, muting complex commands is just a pain in the ass when they fail and leave you with a silent error. Kris --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDjf1mWry0BWjoQKURAhkOAJ407nF0t5A6mBCHnhf9gZF6x4tCAwCgtP1Z MNMdu/zRUOtNq0Lz7zQF5/A= =l+hC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JP+T4n/bALQSJXh8--