Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:25:13 -0600 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syntax of the INDEX file Message-ID: <20060212132513.GA26107@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <43EF32C3.5040503@gmail.com> References: <43EF32C3.5040503@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:06:11PM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote: > I have a question concerning the syntax of the index file at the top of > the ports tree. > > I read in a comment in bsd.port.mk (line 4827) that it should look like > this: > > distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \ > description-file|maintainer|categories|extract-depends| \ > patch-depends|fetch-depends|build-depends|run-depends|www site > > However, this is not the case. I found out empirically that it looks > like this: > > distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \ > description-file|maintainer|categories|build-depends| \ > run-depends|www site|extract-depends|patch-depends|fetch-depends AFAICT the intention was at the time the new fields were introduced (extract-depends, patch-depends, fetch-depends) that they be in the logical order, but instead for compatibility reasons they were postepended instead. So the comment is wrong. mcl
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