From owner-cvs-ports Sat Apr 19 02:54:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA06797 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA06791; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA29956; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:24:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704190954.TAA29956@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice Makefile In-Reply-To: <199704190949.CAA01421@blimp.mimi.com> from Satoshi Asami at "Apr 19, 97 02:49:58 am" To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 19:24:13 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, obrien@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Satoshi Asami stands accused of saying: > * > Display pkg/MESSAGE for port users (as apposed to package users). > * > * Is this the "right" way to do this, or should it be done by bsd.port.mk? > * (Asking for my own reference) > > As a policy, bsd.port.mk doesn't run any of the scripts in pkg/ during > installation. There are too many of them, some of which run twice, > and there just aren't enough hooks in the framework to put them in. > Also it's sometimes not obvious exactly when they should be run (there > are already so many things done in _PORT_USE). Um, is MESSAGE meant to be a script? I had assumed it was just a flat text file. > Satoshi -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[