Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:26:39 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser Message-ID: <13357.849032799@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:48:18 %2B1030." <199611261018.UAA03441@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> "ran it again" as in exited and restarted, or just selected "stale" > from the menu? There's code in there to cache the list of distfiles Just selected stale from the menu. > that should probably be ripped out; I was under the misapprehension > that I could maintain internal state consistent with external state, > and collecting the list of distfiles takes much less time than I > thought it would. Ah.. Another nice thing might be a "delete" button, so you can simply say "ah, these files are stale. Nuke them please!" > On reflection, I think the best possible policy would be to insist > that distfiles should either be in the base directory, or a directory > that matches the directory name the port is in. Eg. the port in > ports/foo/bar would have distfiles in ports/distfiles _or_ in > ports/distfiles/bar. That's something you'll have to take up with Satoshi. :-) Jordan
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