Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 08:41:01 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_create vs. my new port Message-ID: <199602021641.IAA06723@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 23:03:54 PST." <199602020703.XAA01917@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu>
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Satoshi wrote: > * easier work-around. One idea I had was to use "@cwd" lines in the > * PLIST, to make it smaller. For example, there are many files whose > > Well you can just specify the subdirectory name, like "lib/m3".... ;) Perfect! Thanks, that's just the kind of advice I needed. I didn't know whether it was OK to just put a directory name into the PLIST file. > * I could fix pkg_create to use tar's "-T" option (get the list of files > * from a file instead of from the command line), but I'm looking for an > > It will be greatly appreciated if you can do that! There are some > other ports that can use help. OK, I'll do that right away. I looked at the existing code, and it won't be that hard to do. Can you suggest somebody to review my changes after I've made them? Thanks, John
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