From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 14 6:45: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from puck.firepipe.net (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5E237B66C; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 06:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by puck.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9881C1916; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:45:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 08:45:51 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami , bmah@FreeBSD.org, Neil Blakey-Milner , Akinori -Aki- MUSHA , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, will@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Use @comment PLIST variable to track where installed packages came from [Was: Enhancement of pkg_version's version comparison routine] Message-ID: <20001014084551.O95891@puck.firepipe.net> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <20000927002401.A73341@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9D006.652DC258@FreeBSD.org> <20001003161027.B67542@mithrandr.moria.org> <39D9EE01.7A880665@FreeBSD.org> <200010031657.e93Gvtg10718@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DB17BB.12805565@FreeBSD.org> <200010060426.e964Qvx70814@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <39DE1A48.C7C8C9CF@FreeBSD.org> <39E84F54.257664E5@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39E84F54.257664E5@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 03:19:32PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 03:19:32PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > With this message I'm attaching slightly revised bsd.port.mk patch, which doesn't invoke separate > processes (BTW, Will can you please extend our make(1) to let address words in variables using their > numbers, something like ${SOMEVAR:123}?). You mean their substring number? I.e., if the string contains "blah1 blah2 blah3 blha5 blah21" and you want ${SOMEVAR:4}, it returns "blha5", right? That could easily be implemented, although I'm not sure about the implications of such a feature. -- Will Andrews - Physics Computer Network wench The Universal Answer to All Problems - "It has something to do with physics." -- Comic on door of Room 240, Physics Building, Purdue University http://puck.firepipe.net/will/rm240.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message