Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:00:17 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: Carlos A M dos Santos <casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br>, FreeBSD ports mailing list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Script to genarate PLIST? Message-ID: <20001012120017.A97048@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <39E47200.7125F0BF@thehousleys.net>; from jim@thehousleys.net on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:58:24AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010101319480.1220-100000@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br> <39E47200.7125F0BF@thehousleys.net>
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James Housley on 2000-10-11 (Wed) at 09:58:24 -0400: > > The porters handbook show how to do this. > > http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/porting-autoplist.html > > However it could use some improvements. Specifically, I'd pipe the find command that adds the files to $PLIST through sort(1) first (cuts down the size of future diff files), and the output of the find that adds the directories to $PLIST through "sort -r" (pretty much ensures the directories are removed in a sane order when deinstalling). Hmm, and add something to remove man pages from $PLIST, I suppose. :-) Let me see what I can do... -- Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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