Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:17:51 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Tom Hukins <tom@eborcom.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Suggestion for "Making a port yourself" in the Handbook Message-ID: <XFMail.981229161751.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <19981229134046.A2455@eborcom.com>
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On 29-Dec-98 Tom Hukins wrote: > I've found the "Making a port yourself" section of the Handbook very > useful recently, as I've started contributing ports. > > I didn't like the idea of building a packing list by hand, so I > figured out a way of creating packing lists semi-automatically. > There is currently no mention of any such technique in the handbook, > so I suggest this (or something better) is included: > > > Creating a packing list manually can be a very tedious task. It is > often best to create the PLIST file using the "find" program. Extracted from my mega-make files (http://www.ragnet.demon.co.uk/remake/), same idea just does a little more: _plistdir = ${PREFIX}/whatever PLIST = PLIST ${PLIST} : _PLIST _PLIST : echo "@owner ${PKG_OWN}" >${PLIST} echo "@group ${PKG_GRP}" >>${PLIST} find ${_plistdir} -type file | \ sed -e 's!^${_plistdir}/!!' | \ cat >>${PLIST} find ${_plistdir} -type dir | \ sed -e 's!^${_plistdir}/!!' | \ grep -v ${_plistdir} | \ tail +2 | \ sed -e 's!^!\@exec chown ${PKG_OWN}:${PKG_GRP} %D/!' | \ cat >>${PLIST} find -d ${_plistdir} -type dir | \ sed -e 's!^${_plistdir}/!!' | \ grep -v ${_plistdir} | \ sed -e 's!^!\@dirrm !' | \ cat >>${PLIST} Watch out for tabs! The rest of my remake stuff can be used to build ports, distributions and packages. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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