From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jun 3 18:56:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from london.physics.purdue.edu (london.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.67.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 754E737B401; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@physics.purdue.edu) Received: from bohr.physics.purdue.edu (bohr.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.67.12]) by london.physics.purdue.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25053; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:56:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Postfix, from userid 12409) id 822EC5BAA; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:56:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:56:31 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Doug Barton Cc: Ade Lovett , Will Andrews , Ernst de Haan , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of pkg-comment (Was: Supporting pkg-plist.gz ?) Message-ID: <20010603205631.M62844@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> Reply-To: Will Andrews Mail-Followup-To: Doug Barton , Ade Lovett , Will Andrews , Ernst de Haan , ports@FreeBSD.org 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FK65GREB+Evh/hTL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <3B1AE897.929B8D2C@DougBarton.net>; from DougB@DougBarton.net on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 06:47:03PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --FK65GREB+Evh/hTL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. ;) --=20 wca --FK65GREB+Evh/hTL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7GurOF47idPgWcsURAmfxAJ9oGLGebMwwMqVx+r/FCmvH2ORkgACbB/TW JioJgl8cGYpVN/5BKI4hW3Q= =XmJl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FK65GREB+Evh/hTL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message