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Subject: Re: How useful is %%DATADIR%%, anyway?
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On 23 March 2012 21:12, Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/23/12 4:14 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Just as a thought, I decided to try stripping out all mentions of
>> %%DATADIR%%, %%DOCSDIR%% etc from pkg-plist, and replacing them with
>> PORTDOCS=3D*, PORTDATA=3D* in the Makefiles etc.
>
> Don't forget EXAMPLESDOC!

PORTEXAMPLES ;)

>
>> I propose modifying the Porter's Handbook to discourage use of
>> %%PORTDOCS%% etc in static plists, and encourage the use of PORTDOCS
>
>
> want to take a stab at this one?
>
> <*http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/165820>
>
> you are saying that instead of
> *
>
> +%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%% in the plist, this one, you could basically
> eliminate plist-file (save 2k on the disk?)
> and put them in PLIST_FILES in Makefile.

Almost.  PORTDOCS=3D* in the Makefile basically uses find on ${DOCSDIR}
and sticks it into TMPPLIST.  The advantage is that we then have one
line in the Makefile instead of up to 2000 in pkg-plist.

> what if the 'docs' are in a strange place? =A0like this port?
> how would this port be fixed?

Force the port to install docs to the correct place, as per hier :)

Chris