From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 09:57:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E9F16A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:57:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from jengal.datamax.bg (jengal.datamax.bg [82.103.104.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6119143D45 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:57:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from qlovarnika.bg.datamax (qlovarnika.bg.datamax [192.168.10.2]) by jengal.datamax.bg (Postfix) with SMTP id B5DF5B832; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:57:42 +0200 (EET) Received: (nullmailer pid 1897 invoked by uid 1002); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:57:42 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:57:42 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov To: Jeremy Messenger Message-ID: <20060118095742.GA1854@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add distinfo in +CONTENTS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vd@datamax.bg List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:57:45 -0000 --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--