Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:00:54 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improvement? for the files/ directory... Message-ID: <199602210700.JAA18191@grumble.grondar.za>
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wrote: > * I am continually compiling my ports collection as folks upgrade the > * versions of packages, and some ports have _very_ unobvious tarball > * names, and some have more than one. Keeping track of which one(s) > * is/are current is a pain, so I wasted 2 minutes of my life and came > * up with the following idea; Why not "wc -c" all the relevant > * original distribution files for each port at "make makesum" time > * and put those into a file in files/ (I chose "list")? > > Why can't you do this using files/md5? Duh. 'Cos I didnt actually look at what md5 looked like. Although If I wanted to write a script that nuked all old distfiles, I couldn't use files/md5 right now, as that would kill those ports which do not have md5 files (TeX, LaTeX spring to mind). Any way we could do something similar to my idea that would be compulsory for all ports that could be used to give a definitive list of relevant distfile names? Actually - I could probably come up with this given ten minutes or so. Interested? I know the job is a bit of a bitch as some authors do not change the tarball name when they change the contents of the file. (TeX, LaTeX and expect are culprits). Still, the names are still useable? M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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