From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 19 01:48:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CEF106566B for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873408FC08 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18085 invoked by uid 399); 19 Jan 2010 01:48:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 19 Jan 2010 01:48:27 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B550F6B.7040100@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:48:27 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100114 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Philip M. Gollucci" References: <4B54D17E.8000508@FreeBSD.org> <4B550975.8090800@p6m7g8.com> <4B550C9E.6040303@FreeBSD.org> <4B550E1B.2030507@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <4B550E1B.2030507@p6m7g8.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why change to plist-sub for pkg-message? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:48:29 -0000 On 01/18/10 17:42, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> Ok, now I see where you're going with this. :) With respect to Wesley, >> the approach in the patch is bass-ackwards. You don't want to do >> anything with files named *pkg*message*, there are just too many >> variations. The only thing you want to worry about is >> /var/db/pkg/*/+DISPLAY. That way you can be sure of several useful >> things ... it's persistent (I.e., users can bring it up again with >> pkg_info), it's already post-processed, etc. etc. > > Well most of the other patches eliminate crappy seds in the Makefile or > change PREFIX -> %%PREFIX%% so it can *actually* be processed. Oh yes, I specified in my first message that I think generally the work that you and others have been doing is great, and much needed. My comments that you quoted above are in respect to the methodology described in the PR, which is an orthogonal issue. Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso