Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:56:31 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of pkg-comment (Was: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ?) Message-ID: <20010603205631.M62844@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <3B1AE897.929B8D2C@DougBarton.net>; from DougB@DougBarton.net on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:47:03PM -0700 References: <20010601225706.A36653@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <200106021038.f52AcXo50376@mail.uic-in.net> <20010602135045.A682@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <3B19A96D.5806D54C@DougBarton.net> <20010603005412.F59563@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010603130120.D72002@FreeBSD.org> <3B1AE897.929B8D2C@DougBarton.net>
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:47:03PM -0700, Doug Barton (DougB@DougBarton.net=
) wrote:
> Well, it can easily be scripted, so "you have to give up 'make makesum'"
> is not a valid argument, whether you want to accept it or not.=20
Are you volunteering to do it then?
> I don't follow your argument here. If there is a big change coming to
> support open packages anyway, what good does synching with the other bsd's
> do now? In my mind it's much more useful to make the big bold change
> that'll actually do us a lot of good, and possibly demonstrate to the
> openpackages people the benefits of the new system.=20
Indeed.
> As was already demonstrated, collapsing this one file doesn't save us
> enough to justify the amount of work involved.=20
I'll tell you what. If you write a script that will (~99.999% of the
time) flawlessly update the MD5 checksums as embedded in the Makefile,
I will do *all* of the work involved in moving pkg-{comment,descr} into
the Makefile. Or at least I'll do most of it and sucker a few others
into helping me. ;)
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wca
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