From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Aug 29 11:22:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA24705 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwnexus.wa.com (nwnexus.wa.com [192.135.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24684; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA04248 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4); Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:22:03 -0700 Received: from statsci.com [206.63.206.4] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0uwBj8-000JTLC; Thu, 29 Aug 96 11:22 PDT Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Cc: james@ican.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should this port go in ? References: <199608290242.TAA21898@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:42:25 -0700." <199608290242.TAA21898@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:22:02 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) wrote: > This manpage issue has been bothering me for a while. Maybe we can > add a flag to pkg_create to handle this or something. ...or create an ugly-in-a-different-direction solution of using the same filename for both the compressed and uncompressed man pages and have the uncompression process trigger of the file's "magic number" instead of the file's name. Or...is there a way to specify a PLIST entry in such a way as to say that "any file matching this pattern is considered part of this package and as long as at least one file matches, then the file is considered to exist", so you could have a PLIST entry like man/man1/foobar.1{,.gz} and/or some directive somewhere, maybe, to say that ALL of the alternatives must exist, so that @alternative-exist ALL bin/foobar{,d} to use that line as a shorthand for requiring both bin/foobar and bin/foobard. ...I haven't used the pkg stuff as a developer (or sophisticated user), so this could all be an irrelevant tangent, but you never know... Or wait for something like NT's file system/directory compression to happen (no, I'm not qualified or knowledgeable enough to discuss the feasibility or technical merits of their implementation)...with NT 3.51 (at least), you can specify that a directory is compressed - then files that you put in that directory will be compressed automagically. Hmmm...I suppose that kind of granularity wouldn't work in Unix file systems (what happens if you have two links to the same file, one from a compressed dir and one from an uncompressed dir)...oh well. Just some though fodder... Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org