From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 14:40:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0E1106566C for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.50.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C0E8FC08 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 58A915C18; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:40:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:40:21 -0400 From: Wesley Shields To: David DEMELIER Message-ID: <20100623144021.GC280@atarininja.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New pkg-message[.in] guideline idea X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:40:22 -0000 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:16:07PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: > Hi freebsd-ports@, > > I would like to propose you something that I would like to be done. > It's a cosmetic, useless thing but I like when things are made > homogeneously. That is the problem : as you can see, sometimes port > tells a message to the user but some maintainers used delimiters to > begin/end the message such as a lot of "***" or "===" or blank spaces. > > If you already did use NetBSD pkgsrc, you can see that *every* MESSAGE > is composed like this : > > =========================================================================== > $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1.1.1 2008/10/20 09:28:51 wiz Exp $ > > Note you need audio/audacious-plugins to actually play music. > =========================================================================== > > I would do something like this to the FreeBSD ports, if you agree with > me I can check every messages and modify them. I can also put > something in the FreeBSD porter's handbook to write a "pkg-message > template" > > I know that there is much more important work to do, that's why I can > take all this work for myself. I think a better solution is to do what portmaster does and display all the pkg-message files as one of the last things it does. I had a patch to do this sitting in portmgr@ queue but it needs more work. A combination of some standardization of pkg-message files and displaying them all at the end of a build would be best. -- WXS