From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 0:31: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0580A37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828D443E3B for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (6975f272eeb1026f3b429ba75b29aca5@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gA78Wwit008958; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA78WwM7008957; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:32:58 -0800 From: Adam Weinberger To: Warren Block Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ports problem! Message-ID: <20021107083258.GE197@vectors.cx> References: <20021107031744.GC197@vectors.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-PGP-Key: http://www.vectors.cx/pgp.key.txt X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> (11.06.2002 @ 1930 PST): Warren Block said, in 0.6K: << > Lucky I put the water down before reading that--you almost owed me a new > keyboard! Gotcher keyboard. ::) > > Ermmn, I mean, I did it to migrate to the new PORTCOMMENT Makefile > > variable, which deprecates the pkg-comment files. > > Okay. Section 2.2.1 of the Porter's Handbook needs to be updated. I > can submit a PR, although my last PR is still waiting for action > (43755--it's really easy). The reason this hasn't happened yet (other than the fact that nobody's done it) is that the PORTCOMMENTness hasn't been fully ironed out yet. Still being decided is what the variables will be called (COMMENT? PORTCOMMENT? SPORK?), where they will appear officially (I put it in right after MAINTAINER... I've since heard that it should have gone in after *_DEPENDS, and I've also heard that it should go in after all the USE_* varbs), and most importantly, the functionality isn't all there yet. For example: currently, a PORTCOMMENT line cannot contain any apostraphes; unbalanced quotation marks, brackets, or parenthesis; or 2 plus signs in a row (C++, anyone?). All this is currently under review and will be decided once it is no longer under review and has been decided. At that point, then would be a good time to bust out with a PR. "Then" referring to "at that point." The previous sentence failed to make that clear. Also, if you want your vnconfig(8) patch to go through faster, create an actual patch that the docs team can use. Anything that creates less work and more result will be music to a committer's, uhm, fingers. - -Adam - -- Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx adamw@FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9yiU6o8KM2ULHQ/0RAqclAJ4maxlsAehzg6BsDPwcp8mfSbrQZQCfd7vP imK+JxQ1aY40WWfUKTH/e80= =dsik -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message