Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:28:38 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.bawue.com>, Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/asmutils Makefile distinfo pkg-descr Message-ID: <20051130192838.GB76056@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051130144542.GA51725@FreeBSD.org> References: <200511301349.jAUDnfoO032739@repoman.freebsd.org> <1133358970.85111.16.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20051130140838.GA49598@FreeBSD.org> <20051130141600.GB79912@voodoo.bawue.com> <20051130144542.GA51725@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:45:42PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:08:38PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > What's so filthy about mkdirs? I personally enjoy seeing them in the > > > > typescripts. > > > > > > I agree there's a fair amount of controversy with muting mkdir's. Back > > > when I started porting things, I've observed that most ports actually > > > muted those, so I followed that style. Since there's no general rule > > > right, I felt like keeping my ports consistent WRT this. Again, I must > > > say that I would be rather pleased if we'd finally come to an agreement, > > > with appropriate sentence in Porter Handbook. > > > > You wanna get an entry in PH whether to mute or not MKDIR's ? It > > just smells like another-useless-policy-request. It's just a matter > > of taste if you want to hide dirs creation or not. > > Not a request, but rather suggestion or some soft guide-line, and not > only about MKDIR, but also CHOWN/CHMOD and other "non-purely-install" > things. Since we're sweep thru patch: target silently, REINPLACE_CMD's > should be muted as well (and in fact, that makes the trush right now). The guideline is "be sensible". Muting simple commands is fine, muting complex commands is just a pain in the ass when they fail and leave you with a silent error. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDjf1mWry0BWjoQKURAhkOAJ407nF0t5A6mBCHnhf9gZF6x4tCAwCgtP1Z MNMdu/zRUOtNq0Lz7zQF5/A= =l+hC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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