Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:28:22 +0200 From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New pkg-message[.in] guideline idea Message-ID: <AANLkTinBwg_afBrPjQAAQIyyRoSsqUgGNWcqBjRtqsEQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100623144021.GC280@atarininja.org> References: <AANLkTimAhMpVuTIj10XKW65Wl2c6zplyyjD83OO1Y-1I@mail.gmail.com> <20100623144021.GC280@atarininja.org>
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2010/6/23 Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org>: > 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 > Yes, Gentoo's portage emerge does this, if I remember well it prints the message after building the port and when every port has finished and that is really interesting ! Because I always used mv, vim, diff to generate patches I need some time to learn the way to do patches with cvs. -- Demelier David
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