From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 2 14:26:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3221214C0F for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (Hamilton-ppp44893.sympatico.ca [206.172.76.86]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15399; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:27:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01512; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:26:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:26:27 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Rasmus Kaj Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation: how to write a PLIST Message-ID: <19990602172627.A1467@mad> References: <19990602113403.A90582@mad> <19990602182158Y.kaj@raditex.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990602182158Y.kaj@raditex.se>; from Rasmus Kaj on Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 12:21:58PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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