From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 12:57:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D1816A4B3; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.freebsd-services.com (survey.codeburst.net [195.149.39.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892E943FE1; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@freebsd-services.com) Received: by mx0.freebsd-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D45611B21F; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:56:58 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:56:58 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: Nik Clayton Message-ID: <20030917195658.GQ67670@survey.codeburst.net> References: <1063812422.33631.104.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Mark Murray Subject: Re: Base packaging X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:57:02 -0000 On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:53:41PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:27 pm, Paul Richards wrote: > >I was thinking of adding an option to install so it registers the file > >in a plist rather than actually doing the install. A seperate "make > >plist" target could then be used as a helper target to automate the > >generation of plists. > > I think the NetBSD guys have already done something like this. Luke > Mewburn (IIRC) mentioned this in his 'cross building' talk at BSDCon. Yeah, I've been looking at that. -- Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, wiser still to know when it has been achieved and wisest of all to know when it is unachievable for then striving is folly. [Magician]