Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 04:34:02 -0500 (EST) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: big PLIST_FILES patch Message-ID: <20040131033210.L74416@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20040131005921.GB91748@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040130133028.V74416@blues.jpj.net> <20040130212130.GA86224@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040131005921.GB91748@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:49:20AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > > > >>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). > > [skipped] > > >When do you think you'll be able to fix all those plist problems in > > >your ports, and other port build failures? I'd prefer you did this > > >before working on other port changes, since they've been broken for > > >going on 3 months or more now. > > > > But Kris, 1217 ports is a quite big work. Agreed? > > Yes, but it's just a style change (it doesn't fix any errors), By consuming fewer inodes and fewer blocks, I expect to improve performance. At a conference in November, a prospective user asked me why ports.tgz takes so long to untar. > so it's lower priority than fixing port bugs. I sent a patch on November 29th--10 days after adding the ports--to the ports list and portmgr, followed by a reminder on December 1st, but saw no response. -- Trevor Johnson
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