From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 2 09:03:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA00715 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00654 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA00416 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 08:57:24 -0800 Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA06723; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 08:41:01 -0800 Message-Id: <199602021641.IAA06723@austin.polstra.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_create vs. my new port In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 23:03:54 PST." <199602020703.XAA01917@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 08:41:01 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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