Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:48:01 -0700 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic plists Message-ID: <h2ub025ceb71004220848id565b8dcqe1e61970cb2a0c6d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCFEA35.8070109@bsdforen.de> References: <x2ub025ceb71004211645lf30a0fb9o5cebd612c3a28527@mail.gmail.com> <4BCFEA35.8070109@bsdforen.de>
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> On 22/04/2010 01:45, Rob Farmer wrote:
>> I maintain math/scilab and am preparing to update it. This port has a
>> huge plist (slightly under 15000 lines), hundreds of which change
>> depending on what options are selected. It is a bit of a pain to
>> update. The porters handbook makes vague reference to dynamic plists -
>> so I was wondering, would this be a good idea? And if so, what is the
>> best way to make one?
>
> You normally base it on the output of
> ${FIND} -s PATH -type f
> ${FIND} -d PATH -type d | ${SED} 's,^,@dirrm ,'
What would PATH be? It seem to me from a quick look through the tree
that the ports using dynamic plists are not following heir(7) but
instead installing everything in a single directory, like
/usr/local/jdk1.6.0/, and the plist can be generated by simply
enumerating the contents of that directory. That's not the case here.
The only workaround I saw for this was that the Mozilla ports seem to
do an install in a "fake" directory in the workdir, look at that, and
then copy that into /usr/local. I'm not sure I like the idea of
doubling the amount of work required for the install phase just to
save the maintainer a little time at upgrades, however.
--
Rob Farmer
>
> Of course there's normally more to it, but that's the basic principle.
>
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