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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:50:46 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PLIST verification script?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990225125046.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902242109300.444-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On 25-Feb-99 Chuck Robey wrote:
>  You weren't reading the thread ... this was about catching the stuff
>  that an outside piece of software installs, when making a FreeBSD port.
>  If you already *have* a FreeBSD port (whether or not it uses install,
>  which is not always feasible) then you don't need the tools being
>  discussed.
Yes, but if you *DO* make a 'special' version of install you can use it for that as
well... Providing the thing that does the installing uses 'install' - which most apps do
now.

>  when adapting a new FreeBSD port.  When I made the octave port, with
>  it's hundreds of files, that would have saved me *hours* of careful file
>  accounting, installing, deinstalling, reinstalling, .....
Ugh, yeah..

Well, it was just a suggestion that might make life easier.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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