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Subject: Re: ddd-1.0.tar.gz in distfiles dir
In-Reply-To: <199705202117.XAA06964@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "May 20, 97 11:17:09 pm"
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:29:55 +0930 (CST)
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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

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