From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 9 19:37: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E0837B66D; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C705C1908; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:37:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:37:09 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: Maxim Sobolev , bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Neil Blakey-Milner , Akinori -Aki- MUSHA , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Use @comment PLIST variable to track where installed packages came from [Was: Enhancement of pkg_version's version comparison routine] Message-ID: <20001009213709.M1067@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <86k8by6eis.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20000927002401.A73341@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org> <20001003161027.B67542@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9EE01.7A880665@FreeBSD.org> <200010031657.e93Gvtg10718@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DB17BB.12805565@FreeBSD.org> <200010060426.e964Qvx70814@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DE1A48.C7C8C9CF@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:57:22PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:57:22PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > This is a very good idea. I've wanted this for years. :) Me too (the want and years parts :-). :-) > I wish we could do these substitutions without having to invoke > separate processes though. Will, aren't there ways to do this in > make? Yes. You can do regex in make(1) using :C/// var modifier. Currently this is only available in -current, and has been there barely 24 hours. I was planning to MFC it at BSDCon (among other make(1) things I'm going to fix later tonight or tomorrow) to RELENG_[43] and possibly RELENG_2_[2,1_0]. -- Will Andrews - Physics Computer Network wench The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics." -- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message