Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:57:42 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add distinfo in +CONTENTS? Message-ID: <20060118095742.GA1854@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <op.s3j04luy9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <op.s3j04luy9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:25:23PM -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > Hello folks, >=20 > What do anyone think of add distinfo (filename, md5, sha256 and size) in = =20 > the +CONTENTS? As I see the idea of the +CONTENTS file is to store what the port has installed, but the original archive has nothing to do with that. So I guess +CONTENTS is not the appropriate place for this. >=20 > I think it will gaining more features for our third party apps to use it = =20 > such as portupgrade, portmaster, and etc can clean the old or un-use =20 > tarballs in the distfiles more correct. Also, maybe add a new flag in =20 > pkg_add that can display the full info that look like distinfo, so if =20 > author, developer or whatever want to know what kind of tarball you have = =20 > used in case if they re-rolled tarball w/out have your or maintainer =20 > knowledge. It seems a good idea to have the distinfo stored somewhere in /var/db/pkg/appname/ --=20 Vasil Dimov --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDzhEWFw6SP/bBpCARAgUwAJ9HsdyU3uSe1WTaySBDtPvC3xu0bgCfbG/n +MPSBzIJxWNZgSJpzkerLpU= =C/eX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--
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