Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:11:07 -0800 (PST) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi "the Wraith" Asami) To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup and Fetch Message-ID: <199903280511.VAA01750@bubble.didi.com> In-Reply-To: <19990327165750.A68075@rucus.ru.ac.za> (message from Neil Blakey-Milner on Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:57:50 %2B0000) References: <199903261302.IAA19553@istari.home.net> <199903261348.FAA18790@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327152150.A57118@rucus.ru.ac.za> <199903271329.FAA22229@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <19990327165750.A68075@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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* From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
* > You are vastly underestimating the magnitude of the problem. :)
*
* Perhaps, but I think we'd better make sure people don't start getting
* irritated because they have to use upgrade kits too often.
Do you know how often bsd.port.mk changes? :)
We're talking people who are tracking ports-current here. If they are
cvsupping the ports tree, I don't think asking them to fetch an
upgrade kit (at most) once a month is going to annoy that much. (Also
it's only if you aren't making world yourself.)
* Enough of a lot of theoretical waffle (hmm... foood), if there's any
* interest, I have no problems following up with patches and code.
I think you should go read the mail archives. Or the cvs logs. ;>
* (also, on a final note, would people be interested in my patches that add
* functionality to pkg_* and bsd.port.mk to handle LICENSE files or variables,
* considering package system rewrites?)
How does it work? What I would like to see is something like, say, a
LICENSE variable in the port Makefiles that takes either a full
pathname ("${PREFIX}/share/doc/foobaz/license") or one of the
pre-determined values ("BSD"/"GPL"/etc.). They will be stored inside
packages as "+LICENSE". bsd.port.mk can be made to pass an extra
argument to pkg_create for this.
Satoshi
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