From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 16 14:11: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from astart2.astart.com (astart2.astart.com [64.63.58.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A823037B66D for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h4.private (papowell@h4.private [10.0.0.4]) by astart2.astart.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05464 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from papowell@astart.com) Received: (from papowell@localhost) by h4.private (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01081; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:10:47 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com Message-Id: <200010162110.OAA01081@h4.private> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: porters-handbook, small comment about file names Cc: v@astart.com Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the current copy of the Porters-Handbook on the FreeBSD web site (http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook), Section 2.2 - Writing Description Files This section refers to pkg-comment, pkg-descr, pkg-plist In actual fact, they are: pkg/COMMENT, pkg/DESCR, and pkg/PLIST. 2.2. Writing the description files There are three description files that are required for any port, whether they actually package or not. They are pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and pkg-plist, and their pkg- prefix distinguishes them from other files. A better wording might be: There are three description files that are required for any port, whether they actually package or not. These files are in the pkg/ subdirectory and are pkg/COMMENT, pkg/DESCR, and and pkg/PLIST. These are referred to as pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and pkg-plist in this document. However, the pkg-xxx notation is very confusing to the novice. I would recommend or suggest that changing the names where appropriate would be a better idea. Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, papowell@astart.com 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message