From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 13:20:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFA037B400; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D1043E3B; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:20:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17eLg6-0005Si-00; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:20:38 +0700 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17eLg5-0005SN-00; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:20:38 +0700 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7CKKa1m069017; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:20:37 +0700 (NSS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7CKKZg8069015; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:20:35 +0700 (NSS) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:20:34 +0700 From: Max Khon To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Eric Melville , Samuel Tardieu , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-comment Message-ID: <20020813032034.A67671@iclub.nsu.ru> References: <2002-08-11-20-49-28+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> <20020811122319.A11471@FreeBSD.org> <20020812193651.GC4787@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020812193651.GC4787@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:36:51PM -0700 X-Envelope-To: obrien@freebsd.org, eric@freebsd.org, sam@inf.enst.fr, current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:36:51PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > Since pkg-comment contains only a single line, wouldn't it be more subtile > > > to put it in a COMMENT field as does NetBSD, instead of using a file? I think > > > it would speed up updates. > > > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eric/ports-comment.diff > > > > Will Andrews said that portmgr would be going over this sometime soon, > > hopefully they will commit it. > > That will certainly be a big help. When we got rid of the pkg/ and > patches/ directories I begged Satoshi to go farther and put patches in > main port directory and get rid of pkg/COMMENT. That was back when we > hit 3000 ports -- I guess people didn't want to accept we would hit 8000 > in only a few years. > > Of course why we don't just put "COMMENT=blah" in the ports's Makefile Posted patch uses `head -1 ${DESCR}` however. I'd prefer to go NetBSD way and use COMMENT=blah for ports comments /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message