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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:37:57 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>
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:  <19991212143757.A34632@internal>
In-Reply-To: <vqcso1a6z6e.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@freebsd.org on Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 05:31:21PM -0800
References:  <19991210175316.A17711@internal> <vqcso1a6z6e.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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On Fri, 10-Dec-1999 at 17:31:21 -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
>  * From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
> 
>  * 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 think "more than one" sets the threshold a little too low, for

Agreed. That's why I brought the example with 

flash-0.4.3.tgz
flash-0.4.3-fbsd-19990512.patch

in another mail, where it is obvious to which port the files belong.

	-Andre

> instance if emacs-20.5.1 requires emacs-20.5.tar.gz and
> emacs-20.5.1.patch.gz, it probably doesn't have to go into its own
> subdirectory.  (Or we'll be yo-yo'ing back and forth as the patches
> appear and disappear between releases.)
> 
> The current criteria is that "if a port requires a lot of distfiles or
> you can't deduce the port's name from the name[s] of the distfiles",
> which I believe is good enough.
> 
> Furthermore, I think that can be safely applied to SO5, which has the
> following list according to files/md5:
> 
> MD5 (so51a_lnx_01.tar) = 680d631d0cd85e8735b8c3f821cfd2b5
> MD5 (applicat.rdb) = 963432192fb13ee5fd39578becf614c3
> MD5 (libofa517li.so) = 3c3c31b28f3eb40f895fd3db6a121484
> MD5 (libsdb517li.so) = d780b4699658ea3ce71aa9a6cc015137
> 
> The last three are clearly not obvious enough for my eyes..
> 
> -PW


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