Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:10:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports Options Paper Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009082308010.15977-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000909010404.D92984@bonsai.hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Steve Price wrote:
> This would only work if you could get 'make describe' to spew out
> multiple entries for a single port. More specifically the package
> building machines will generate one package per entry in the INDEX
> file. Right now since one port creates a single entry, you'll get
> one package per port. Consequently for what you are saying to work
> each port that could generate more than one package must generate
> more than one INDEX entry. I'm not saying this isn't possible,
> just that unless we want to deal with a more manual process for
> building packages you have to take the package building machines
> into consideration.
Could there be added an extra field to the INDEX which contains a list of
options the package should be built with, like
|...other index stuff...|WITH_FOO,WITH_BAR,WITH_FOO+BAR
the port makefile would then take care of giving the package a different
name for each of the 3 cases, a la Will or whatever.
Kris
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