Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:26:27 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Rasmus Kaj <kaj@raditex.se> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation: how to write a PLIST Message-ID: <19990602172627.A1467@mad> In-Reply-To: <19990602182158Y.kaj@raditex.se>; from Rasmus Kaj on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:21:58PM -0400 References: <19990602113403.A90582@mad> <19990602182158Y.kaj@raditex.se>
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On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Rasmus Kaj wrote: > > TV> No, they only go into the pkg/DESCR port files. They ultimately make > TV> their way into the ports INDEX file. They are supposedly used by some > TV> tools. I'm not sure what tools, or why... > > Hmm? That seems like a comment on my third paragraph (which you didn't > quote), if it was intended as an answer to the quoted paragraph, I may Ya, it sure seems that way, eh? :-) > point out that doc/handbook/porting.sgml is the instructions for > contributing a port, and line 177 of it is in the middle of an example > of a pkg/DESCR file. Ahh... You're looking at an old copy of the handbook. I did update the current handbook (http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/porting.html) when the change was made. Thanks, for checking, though. :) [doc/handbook/porting.sgml is the old LinuxDoc handbook; the new DocBook handbook hangs-out in doc/en/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml]. > You don't want to have to keep inserting 'WWW:' into every new port > that comes in, do you? :-) Hehe. I stopped doing that after about ten. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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