Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:03:06 -0800 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Ports Collection nits Message-ID: <v04020a09b319f5bbb562@ip030.cfcl.com>
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Guise-
I am using the Ports Collection as a major source of input data for
a developmental online information service. As I work on this, I
will be finding assorted problems in the Collection. Here is the
first installment of general notes; let me know if I am using the
wrong addressee, if you don't want to hear about this stuff, etc.
Also, if I come up with (putatively :-) cleaner COMMENTS and DESCR
files, should I send them to the MAINTAINER email address, to this
address, or both? (Of course, if no MAINTAINER is listed, I'll use
this address. :-)
The snapshot I discuss below was downloaded from ftp.cdrom.com on
19990318. If you want a copy of the (rather primitive :-) script I
am using to check things out, let me know...
* Quite a few of the path names from the second and fourth fields of
the INDEX file (e.g., .../print/c2ps-a4/../c2ps-letter/pkg/DESCR)
contain the string "../". This seems unnecessarily convoluted. Is
there a functional reason for this or is it just an artifact (e.g.,
of a moved directory or a spin-off package)?
* Some of the directory names listed in INDEX do not exist in the
downloaded archive:
/usr/ports/games/pente
/usr/ports/japanese/yatex
/usr/ports/japanese/yatex-xemacs
/usr/ports/net/ircd-hybrid-5
/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-gtk
* The DESCR file for /usr/ports/net/ascend-radius is empty.
-r
P.S. I plan to write up the Ports Collection in "Silicon Carny"
(my column in SunWorld Online). Whoever wants to play at
being a critic of _my_ work should let me know...
--
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