From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 20 14:54:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA28729 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 14:54:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA28719; Tue, 20 May 1997 14:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id XAA06964; Tue, 20 May 1997 23:17:10 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199705202117.XAA06964@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: ddd-1.0.tar.gz in distfiles dir To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 23:17:09 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705201613.BAA03744@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at May 21, 97 01:43:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > > Would it be possible to scan the Makefiles for all "supported" > > > release of freebsd, make a list of the "DISTFILES" which are in > > > use, and put all the others in a different place ? I am asking > > > because the distfiles dir is becoming way too large and hard to > > > reproduce locally. > > > > It would be possible, yes. Probable? I don't know. That depends > > on what kind of script you end up writing for Satoshi. ;-) Well I started writing a simple perl script to record occurrences of DISTNAME, PKGNAME, EXTRACT_SUFX and DISTFILES, but probably the easiest way is to modify bsd.port.mk with a target similar to "do-fetch" which already does most of the work (actually, too much because it even fetches the file...). I am not going to write this but it should be a fairly simple cut&paste work for the ports mainainer. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________