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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 04:39:23 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>,
        Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  ports/editors/staroffice Makefile
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On Sat Apr 19 03:06:18 EST 1997, David O'Brien writes:
> > Um, is MESSAGE meant to be a script?  I had assumed it was just a flat
> > text file.
> 
> It is just a flat text file.  Satoshi, probably ment processing of the
> files in pkg/ as if you were doing a package install.  This includes the
> INSTALL scripts and some commands in PLIST (please correct me if I'm
> wrong).

Hmm. What about adding this functionality to pkg_add and adding
the file to /var/db/pkg/<pkg-name> so both types of ports users
get to see it? (and, of course, +MESSAGE needs to be added in
pre-build packages where applicable).


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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