From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 22:51:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13F016AFBC for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:51:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5611443D6E for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:51:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EF4C382; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06727-09; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E53BF9B; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E898B820; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: "michael johnson" Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:51:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <446B70C4.20195.AEC7223@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: References: <446B41E3.9161.A355435@dan.langille.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports without pkg-descr X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:51:57 -0000 On 17 May 2006 at 16:58, michael johnson wrote: > On 5/17/06, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm having trouble understanding a few ports and I'm hoping you can > > help. The ports in question are: > > > > devel/glib20-reference > > devel/glibmm-reference > > > > The issue: pkg-descr, or more precisely, the output of make -V DESCR. > > > > [dan@polo:/usr/home/dan/ports/devel/glibmm-reference] $ make -V DESCR > > /usr/home/dan/ports/devel/glibmm-reference/work/pkg-descr > > > > Is that expected? A pkg-descr in the working directory? > > > pkg-descr added to ports, thanks! Thank you. All is well. :) > > If so, that file is created during the build process. Within the > > current FreshPorts framework, this is an anomoly and there is no way > > for the system to go through the steps necessary to create that file. > > > > I have attempted to make both devel/glibmm-reference and and still > > not find a pkg-descr file. Is this expected behaviour? > > > > Is is really necessary to have a pkg-desc that is constructed > > automatically? I ask in case there's a way around this without > > special casing it for FreshPorts. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work > > my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php