Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:37:09 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Use @comment PLIST variable to track where installed packages came from [Was: Enhancement of pkg_version's version comparison routine] Message-ID: <20001009213709.M1067@puck.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <vqc8zrx8nlp.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:57:22PM -0700 References: <86k8by6eis.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20000927002401.A73341@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org> <20001003161027.B67542@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9EE01.7A880665@FreeBSD.org> <200010031657.e93Gvtg10718@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DB17BB.12805565@FreeBSD.org> <200010060426.e964Qvx70814@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DE1A48.C7C8C9CF@FreeBSD.org> <vqc8zrx8nlp.fsf_-_@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:57:22PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > This is a very good idea. I've wanted this for years. :) Me too (the want and years parts :-). :-) > I wish we could do these substitutions without having to invoke > separate processes though. Will, aren't there ways to do this in > make? Yes. You can do regex in make(1) using :C/// var modifier. Currently this is only available in -current, and has been there barely 24 hours. I was planning to MFC it at BSDCon (among other make(1) things I'm going to fix later tonight or tomorrow) to RELENG_[43] and possibly RELENG_2_[2,1_0]. -- Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> - Physics Computer Network wench The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics." -- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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