Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:01:53 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Stefan Franziskus <stefran@cs.uni-sb.de> Cc: www@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961028092450.6405A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <3274B960.5F90@cs.uni-sb.de>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Stefan Franziskus wrote:
> First of all, I have to say, that I really appreciate the very well
> maintained ports collection on the FreeBSD-Page. But I think it would
> be nice to have a list of "new ports", just to show what has been
> added recently (or during the last 4 weeks) to the Ports Collection.
This is something I want very much, in addition to recently
changed/updated ports. Unfortunately, the current mechanism for
generating the ports pages doesn't easily lend itself to such
features. I have a little perl program that reads the ports
INDEX file and spits out HTML, but the INDEX file contains no
date information. This could be changed. For example, here is a
port Makefile:
# New ports collection makefile for: rplay - Network audio player
# Version required: 3.2.0b3
# Date created: 16 March 1995
# Whom: rmallory@csusb.edu
#
# $Id: Makefile,v 1.5 1996/10/03 14:13:05 adam Exp $
#
DISTNAME= rplay-3.2.0b5
CATEGORIES+= audio
MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.sdsu.edu/pub/rplay/
HAS_CONFIGURE= yes
USE_GMAKE= yes
.include <bsd.port.mk>
The commented stuff at the top is good to have, although "Version
required:" is somewhat redundant, but it isn't easily accessible.
The date created and creator should be variables. The date format
would then have to be standardized (eg 19950316), and another field
indicating the date of last change would have to be added.
Unfortunately RCS keywords cannot reliably be used for the update
date as updates do not necessairly involve the Makefile. (Is there
an RCS keyword for import date?) As far as I can tell, a manual
update would be required.
A more useful makefile might look something like this:
# $Id: Makefile,v 1.5 1996/10/03 14:13:05 adam Exp $
COMMENT= Network audio player
CREATOR= rmallory@csusb.edu
CREATED= 19950316
UPDATED= 19950316
DISTNAME= rplay-3.2.0b5
CATEGORIES+= audio
MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.sdsu.edu/pub/rplay/
HAS_CONFIGURE= yes
USE_GMAKE= yes
.include <bsd.port.mk>
Comments from the ports team?
-john
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