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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:13:20 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>
To:        papowell@astart.com
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG, v@astart.com
Subject:   Re: porters-handbook, small comment about file names
Message-ID:  <20001016141320.A6941@envy.geekhouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <200010162110.OAA01081@h4.private>; from papowell@astart.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:10:47PM -0700
References:  <200010162110.OAA01081@h4.private>

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On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 at 14:10:47 -0700, papowell@astart.com wrote:
> 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.

Not anymore :-)  This changed a week or two ago.

>   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.

That's because they are pkg-* now.

> 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.

See above.

- jim

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