Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:29:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ddd-1.0.tar.gz in distfiles dir Message-ID: <199705210359.NAA08546@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705202117.XAA06964@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "May 20, 97 11:17:09 pm"
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Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying: > > > > > > It would be possible, yes. Probable? I don't know. That depends > > > on what kind of script you end up writing for Satoshi. ;-) > > Well I started writing a simple perl script to record occurrences of > DISTNAME, PKGNAME, EXTRACT_SUFX and DISTFILES, but probably the easiest > way is to modify bsd.port.mk with a target similar to "do-fetch" > which already does most of the work (actually, too much because it even > fetches the file...). > > I am not going to write this but it should be a fairly simple cut&paste > work for the ports mainainer. If you care at all about this, please spare a second for PIB; the Ports Index Browser, which does much of this already. It's not possible to parse the Makefiles without using make(1) itself, and that's _hideously_ slow; PIB uses a modification to the files/md5 format that Satoshi put through months back, and may well be what you want. > Luigi -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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