Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 07:53:16 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Two suggestions for ports Message-ID: <199902060653.HAA08840@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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About ports:
1) those who occasionally send pointers to interesting software,
can they please send them in the following form:
# New ports collection makefile for: piMP3
DISTNAME= piMP3-0.5CATEGORIES= mbone
MASTER_SITES= http://nonfat.above.net/~ser
.include <bsd.port.mk>
the above, although not perfect, can be easily put in
/usr/ports/<your-subtree>/Makefile
for making use of our excellent port makefiles.
Also, after a bit of playing with ports, i wonder if it would be better
to have the content of files like files/MD5, and pkg/* directly into
the Makefile.
This is based on the following motivations:
* these files are often very short (one line or little more)
so the clutter in the Makefile because one should quote multiline
text is not significant
* updates to the above files generally occur when the distribution
changes, so usually one has to modify Makefile as well. By putting
things in one place reduces the number of modified files and is also
a good reminder for lazy people.
* one of the problems of the ports tree is the large number of
directories -- by putting everything in the Makefile we save a
couple of directories per port (in the frequent case when there is
nothing else than MD5 in files/)
I think it would be fairly simple to implement the above in a backward
compatible way (use the Make variables if defined, otherwise resort to
the old file resources)
Opinions ? (don't ask me for patches though, i don't know enough of the
various dependencies in the *mk files...)
cheers
luigi
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