Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 18:54:41 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> Cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: patch to allow moved pkg comments Message-ID: <20020805235441.GX10699@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <20020805163407.A21728@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020805163407.A21728@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:34:07PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: > I wrote a patch that allows pkg-comment to be omitted, and in that case the > comment will be taken from the first line of pkg-descr. This change is > simple, safe, entirely conditionalized on pkg-comment not existing, and can > be entirely ignored if people don't like it. On the other hand, it allows a > potentially huge number of inodes to be reclaimed. > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eric/ports-comment.diff > > Please let me know what you think. Thanks! Sounds like a good idea. Normally I'd say put it in the Makefile, though I suppose it'd be just as easy to replace ${COMMENT} with `head -1 pkg-descr`. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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