From owner-svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 15:07:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D673BF72; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA741D11; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.31.9.122] (unknown [213.225.137.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E298543B8C; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:07:12 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <54340195.60606@marino.st> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:07:01 +0200 From: John Marino Reply-To: marino@freebsd.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mathieu Arnold , 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 References: <201410062258.s96MwoqK063529@svn.freebsd.org> <5433E4F7.9030903@marino.st> <5433F63B.8000506@marino.st> <55F3F598E11FE4EBDB3743DB@ogg.in.absolight.net> In-Reply-To: <55F3F598E11FE4EBDB3743DB@ogg.in.absolight.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:07:25 -0000 On 10/7/2014 16:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > +--On 7 octobre 2014 16:18:35 +0200 John Marino > | 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