From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 2 6:31:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E3737B422 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 06:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.9.24]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010602133140.TVHI285.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:31:40 +0100 Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 14:31:39 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Ernst de Haan Cc: Peter Pentchev , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ? In-Reply-To: <20010602151240.B905@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Uh, now that you mention it, I'm already using that :) But I thought George > was referring to a more advanced system. But reading his mail again he > probably wasn't. Well, I was thinking of something slightly more advanced, but with John Polstra's reminder, it would still seem somewhat pointless given the limitations of the filesystem. Will's shameless plug of regexps and Trevor's suggestions of automated PLIST generation are definitely better ideas all-round. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message