Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:45:24 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: big PLIST_FILES patch Message-ID: <20040130133028.V74416@blues.jpj.net>
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I've noticed that many ports have just one line in their packing list. I've made a patch to use the PLIST_FILES variable in place of most these simple packing lists, in order to reduce the numbers of inodes and blocks that users need to unpack the ports collection. This patch would affect 1,217 ports. There are 50-odd pkg-plist files that just have a comment in them; this patch doesn't address those (I have a hunch that they could just be removed without causing problems). The patch is at <URL:http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/ports/plist_files-oneliners.diff>; and the list of pkg-plist files to be removed is at <URL:http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/ports/one-line-packing-lists.txt>; (its first line is a comment). My intention is to ask for it to be tested on the package-building cluster, then if all goes well, to commit it. I'm looking here for any suggestions or objections. If you'd like your ports to be left out of this, please speak up. -- Trevor Johnson
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