Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:37:46 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How about using DIST_SUBDIR for ports w multiple files (StarOffice5) Message-ID: <19991210183746.A18715@internal> In-Reply-To: <38512AAA.4B7CDBB0@heartland.ab.ca>; from dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:30:34AM -0700 References: <19991210175316.A17711@internal> <38512AAA.4B7CDBB0@heartland.ab.ca>
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On Fri, 10-Dec-1999 at 09:30:34 -0700, Darren Wiebe wrote:
> Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> >
> > Just mailed the following suggestion to the StarOffice5
> > maintainer/committer and it was suggested to got to
> > the ports mailing list with it:
>
> I am listed as the maintainer and I never got your email... but
> anyways..
That's funny, I sent it to you and obrien@freebsd.org. However,
in the commit logs we find:
-------------------------- snip --------------
This is Sun's version 5.1a of StarOffice, an office productivity suite
simular to Microsoft Office.
PR: 14899
Submitted by: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@heartland.ab.ca> (reworked by me)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-------------------------- snap --------------
That's the address I took so I assume it's in the other mailbox...
> >
> > ------------------------ snip -----------------------
> >
> > I got one suggestion: How about putting all the Staroffice
> > related files in a separate directory and not in ${DISTDIR}
> > directly? I think this is a good idea for all ports that
> > need multiple dist- or patchfiles...
> >
>
> I see the advantage in this. However, I think that if we are going to
> do it this way, then all ports that fetch more than one file would have
> to have their own directory. Is this a good thing? I like being able
> to just quickly go through the distfiles dirctory and pick out files
> that I have more than one version of and delete them.
Hmm, when I look at my distfiles directory, it contains 267 files.
From these there are some I don't know what they are for but they
definately had been fetched by the ports mechanism. If the filenames
are as clear as
flash-0.4.3.tgz
flash-0.4.3-fbsd-19990512.patch
everything is easy but with applicat.rdb, libofa517li.so and libsdb517li.so,
for example, it will become hard in a few weeks.
I also delete old versions from time to time and found that simply
doing a 'ls *' in the distfiles directory gives quite a nice picture
of what we find in the subdirs as well, e.g.:
teTeX:
total 13552
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 9512936 Mar 22 1999 teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 4341637 Mar 22 1999 teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz
xengine:
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 8176 Jun 11 1997 part01.z
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 3506 Jun 11 1997 patch1.z
iso12083:
total 105
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 38142 May 17 1999 article.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 40355 May 17 1999 book.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 16111 May 17 1999 maths.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 10543 May 17 1999 serial.dtd
-Andre
>
> Darren Wiebe
> dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com
>
> > ------------------------ snap -----------------------
> >
> > What do people think about it? I find that the whole
> > DISTDIR is more maintable and easier to look at but
> > there can be things I didn't think of, of course...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Andre
> >
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