Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:40:21 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New pkg-message[.in] guideline idea Message-ID: <20100623144021.GC280@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimAhMpVuTIj10XKW65Wl2c6zplyyjD83OO1Y-1I@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimAhMpVuTIj10XKW65Wl2c6zplyyjD83OO1Y-1I@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:16:07PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: > Hi freebsd-ports@, > > I would like to propose you something that I would like to be done. > It's a cosmetic, useless thing but I like when things are made > homogeneously. That is the problem : as you can see, sometimes port > tells a message to the user but some maintainers used delimiters to > begin/end the message such as a lot of "***" or "===" or blank spaces. > > If you already did use NetBSD pkgsrc, you can see that *every* MESSAGE > is composed like this : > > =========================================================================== > $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1.1.1 2008/10/20 09:28:51 wiz Exp $ > > Note you need audio/audacious-plugins to actually play music. > =========================================================================== > > I would do something like this to the FreeBSD ports, if you agree with > me I can check every messages and modify them. I can also put > something in the FreeBSD porter's handbook to write a "pkg-message > template" > > I know that there is much more important work to do, that's why I can > take all this work for myself. I think a better solution is to do what portmaster does and display all the pkg-message files as one of the last things it does. I had a patch to do this sitting in portmgr@ queue but it needs more work. A combination of some standardization of pkg-message files and displaying them all at the end of a build would be best. -- WXS
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