Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:07:01 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r370242 - in head/emulators: . hyperv-is hyperv-is/files Message-ID: <54340195.60606@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <55F3F598E11FE4EBDB3743DB@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <201410062258.s96MwoqK063529@svn.freebsd.org> <A1AB28657D5EF303B9BEE5D2@ogg.in.absolight.net> <5433E4F7.9030903@marino.st> <BEA6C4E87B469EEE5D8476C1@ogg.in.absolight.net> <5433F63B.8000506@marino.st> <55F3F598E11FE4EBDB3743DB@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On 10/7/2014 16:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +--On 7 octobre 2014 16:18:35 +0200 John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
> | It was my understanding that pkg-plist lists assigned a ${PREFIX} prefix
> | and @cwd was the only way to list files outside of the prefix. This is
> | why I was surprised that stuff like /var/db/mydir worked. I don't know
> | when absolute paths got supported.
>
> Absolute path always were supported with pkg, so people have been using
> those for some time.
Does that mean using them before 1 Sept 2014 broke the port for people
using pkg_install? Since it's historical now, I'm mainly just curious.
I would have thought this use would be discouraged if pkg_install
couldn't support it.
>
> | for me, absolute path is something new, not a baseline.
> | Why would @cwd even exist if it wasn't necessary in the past?
>
> Well, nothing in the handbook tells you to use @cwd, the only occurrence of
> it is in its own documentation section, and make makeplist will output a
> clean plist, without using @cwd.
I really did actually review the documentation before conceding to use
@cwd, and I didn't find anything. The @cwd documentation should note
that it's deprecated and to use absolute patch instead (IMO). It would
be nice if CHANGES mentioned it too. I checked both sources as I said.
John
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