From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 19 01:42:53 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241BA106566B; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:42:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) Received: from EXHUB015-3.exch015.msoutlookonline.net (exhub015-3.exch015.msoutlookonline.net [207.5.72.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100028FC14; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from philip.hq.rws (174.79.184.239) by smtpx15.msoutlookonline.net (207.5.72.103) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:42:52 -0800 Message-ID: <4B550E1B.2030507@p6m7g8.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:42:51 +0000 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" Organization: P6M7G8 Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091208) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4B54D17E.8000508@FreeBSD.org> <4B550975.8090800@p6m7g8.com> <4B550C9E.6040303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4B550C9E.6040303@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why change to plist-sub for pkg-message? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:42:53 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > Ok, now I see where you're going with this. :) With respect to Wesley, > the approach in the patch is bass-ackwards. You don't want to do > anything with files named *pkg*message*, there are just too many > variations. The only thing you want to worry about is > /var/db/pkg/*/+DISPLAY. That way you can be sure of several useful > things ... it's persistent (I.e., users can bring it up again with > pkg_info), it's already post-processed, etc. etc. Well most of the other patches eliminate crappy seds in the Makefile or change PREFIX -> %%PREFIX%% so it can *actually* be processed. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024D/DB9B8C1C B90B FBC3 A3A1 C71A 8E70 3F8C 75B8 8FFB DB9B 8C1C Philip M. Gollucci (pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) c: 703.336.9354 VP Apache Infrastructure; Member, Apache Software Foundation Committer, FreeBSD Foundation Consultant, P6M7G8 Inc. Sr. System Admin, Ridecharge Inc. Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.