Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:27:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/librep Makefile pkg-plist ports/lang/librep/files patch-Makedefs.in Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.56.0307131243370.945@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <1057992291.42958.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <200307120606.h6C66T69010399@repoman.freebsd.org> <1057992291.42958.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Is this attempting to fix the problems seen since the recent texinfo > import? That caused dozens of ports to break, but ru is on vacation > so I can't discuss a possible global fix with him. What's the problem you are seeing, and what's the global fix you have in mind? (I am most sure that this is not ru's fault at all, him only being the proverbial messenger.) If it is makeinfo now generating fewer .info* files, our ports were simply relying on a default setting that now changed (for the better). I suggested/discussed the changes in this area to/with the upstream texinfo maintainer, so if you want to discuss any fixes of our ports collection, I'm happy to help. Ultimately, I strongly feel that the current handling of .info files in the ports collection is broken in that every port handles them manually. Instead of the following (or worse) in pkg-plist @unexec install-info --delete %D/info/fastjar.info %D/info/dir info/fastjar.info @exec install-info %D/info/fastjar.info %D/info/dir a single linke in Makefile, like we have for MAN, would be much better. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2003-April/000203.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2003-April/000249.html On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Okay. Sawfish will be gone soon, but librep will remain. I'll leave > this in until something better comes along. Actually, I would suggest to make --no-split the system-wide default for the entire ports collection. This will require changes to most ports using .info* files, but works with any version of texinfo we used in the last couple of years and makes pkg-plists simpler as well. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/
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