Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:56:40 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: distfile belongs to? Message-ID: <45749998.3070308@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20061204213106.GA42084@atarininja.org> References: <17771.24717.95357.989644@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <456B70E9.4030408@FreeBSD.org> <20061204213106.GA42084@atarininja.org>
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Wesley Shields wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:12:41PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> Robert Huff wrote: >>> Let's suppose I have a list of tarballs >>> (e.g. foobar-1.23.456.tar.gz). How do I tell which port each file >>> belongs to? "pkg_info" only lists the end results. >> The correct answer is, "not easily." You can look at the code for >> sysutils/portmaster to get an idea of how you could do it, but what >> really needs to happen is for someone to write the code to embed that >> data in the +CONTENTS file. > > I took a stab at this over the weekend. It's broken up into two parts. > [1] is the addition to pkg_create and pkg_info and [2] is the addiction > to bsd.port.mk. > > I mentioned this to pav@ on IRC a few days ago and I believe he and I > may have miscommunicated regarding the use of this patch. With that > said, I figured I would toss this out to the list as a possible way of > recording the distfile(s) and patchfile(s) associated with a given > port/package. > > The end result is a series of @distfile foo/bar.tar.gz lines in > +CONTENTS. You can then use pkg_info -F to get a listing of them. > > It's my first time doing something like this so please be gentle. :) > > -- WXS > > [1]: http://www.atarininja.org/~wxs/patches/distfile-in-contents-part1.diff > [2]: http://www.atarininja.org/~wxs/patches/distfile-in-contents-part2.diff After a cursory exam this looks really great! I'd love to see this, or something like it added ASAP. At minimum the bsd.port.mk patch should definitely be added even if it takes a while for the other stuff to percolate. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection
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