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Date:      Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:11:01 -0600
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/QNetChess Makefile distinfo pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <opsm61oni79aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050305234149.GA22873@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 23:41:49 +0000, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:37:23AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>
>> >I am not sure how can few of you have missed the points. The
>> >lower-cased  is much lesser problem.
>>
>> But I still see no problem on this.
>> The most strong reason was a problem with port finding.
>> But 'make search' works fine anyway.

The 'make search' doesn't always work very well for the rookie. Trust me,  
I have seen few of it in bsdforums for where is 'abiword' while it was  
'AbiWord'.

> No, the problem was navigating with cd from the shell prompt and
> having to guess which possible combination of capitalization the port
> chooses to use.  This argument was already carried out though.

Also, that include 'pkg_delete foobar' and other tools, I had to check in  
pkg_info or else to for the correct combination of capitalization.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Kris


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