Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:03:18 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? Message-ID: <199806262003.WAA00689@semyam.dinoco.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:16:24 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626141506.22342A-100000@ppp6412.on.bellglobal.com>
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> > field to the INDEX w/o too much work. So if that works I will change > > them to merge the INDEX in /usr/ports and my size information with a > > little bit of awk code. > > Oh-uh. I sense a whole new INDEX file coming on. Are there I'm not crazy. It looks as if older sysinstall versions ignore the additional fields to the end and someone suggested to put it into the INDEX file. As this removes the need for a separate SIZE file and also decreases the amount of processing needed at package installation time (otherwise one would have to merge INDEX and SIZE) I think this is the right way to do it. The reasons not to do it would be problems with automatic generation of the size information improved INDEX from /usr/ports/INDEX and incompatibilities with older sysinstall versions. The former is not likely (a little bit of awk code should be able to do it I think - if need be I will do it with Perl 4) and the latter I will try with a 2.1.7 sysinstall. I don't think the relevant piece of code changed much. > fields that we could even remotely want to add while the format > is being changed? Why bother now? From reading the source I saw the possibility to add new fields at the end. So if ever anybody wants some new field it could be added there. No need to add new fields before someone even knows what to add. :-) Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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