From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 31 08:55:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA21505 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA21500; Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:55:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA20138 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:55:38 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0uwsOT-000JS6C; Sat, 31 Aug 96 08:55 PDT Message-Id: To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should this port go in ? References: <199608310157.SAA19946@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Aug 1996 18:57:32 -0700." <199608310157.SAA19946@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <9660.841506932.1@statsci.com> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 08:55:33 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) wrote: > * The idea I had was to modify install to (optionally) log > * installations. The logging could be controlled either through > > This is a really cool idea. But install is not the only program that > is used, there is cp (I know this is wrong), touch, tar, and maybe > cpio. And the whole directory copies that use tar/cpio is the ones > that are most hard to keep track of. Would it make sense to put a directory at the front of $PATH just for ports that has a collection of wrapper scripts? Then maybe you could stick a 'tar' script in there that figures out what's going on and does an extra 'tar t' to get the filenames? Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org