Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:18:35 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r370242 - in head/emulators: . hyperv-is hyperv-is/files Message-ID: <5433F63B.8000506@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <BEA6C4E87B469EEE5D8476C1@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <201410062258.s96MwoqK063529@svn.freebsd.org> <A1AB28657D5EF303B9BEE5D2@ogg.in.absolight.net> <5433E4F7.9030903@marino.st> <BEA6C4E87B469EEE5D8476C1@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On 10/7/2014 16:14, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > > +--On 7 octobre 2014 15:04:55 +0200 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> > wrote: > | On 10/7/2014 11:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > |> +--On 6 octobre 2014 22:58:50 +0000 John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> > |> wrote: > |> | +@cwd /boot/kernel > |> | +%%A%%hv_ata_pci_disengage.ko > |> | +%%A%%hv_netvsc.ko > |> > |> Please, do not use @cwd, it is confusing, and not needed since pkg_* has > |> gotten out. List files with their path like this : > |> %%A%%/boot/kernel/hv_ata_pci_disengage.ko > | > | In my defense: > | 1) It works (tested pretty thoroughly) > | 2) The alternative to @cwd is not documented in UPDATING so I had no > | idea what the alternative was. > | 3) cwd is documented here with no alternative: > | https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/plist-keywords.html > | > | So it's not really fair to bang on us for stuff that is undocumented. > | right? This theme is getting repetitive too. > > Well, it's a bit the other way around, @cwd was the alternative to listing > the full path to the filenames, so, I could document the alternative to the > alternative, but it feels a bit silly :-) It was my understanding that pkg-plist lists assigned a ${PREFIX} prefix and @cwd was the only way to list files outside of the prefix. This is why I was surprised that stuff like /var/db/mydir worked. I don't know when absolute paths got supported. for me, absolute path is something new, not a baseline. Why would @cwd even exist if it wasn't necessary in the past? John
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