Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:59:21 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: big PLIST_FILES patch Message-ID: <20040131005921.GB91748@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <401AFB90.1080602@ciam.ru> References: <20040130133028.V74416@blues.jpj.net> <20040130212130.GA86224@xor.obsecurity.org> <401AFB90.1080602@ciam.ru>
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--wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:49:20AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > >>I've noticed that many ports have just one line in their packing list. > >>I've made a patch to use the PLIST_FILES variable in place of most these > >>simple packing lists, in order to reduce the numbers of inodes and bloc= ks > >>that users need to unpack the ports collection. This patch would affect > >>1,217 ports. There are 50-odd pkg-plist files that just have a comment= in > >>them; this patch doesn't address those (I have a hunch that they could > >>just be removed without causing problems). > [skipped] > >When do you think you'll be able to fix all those plist problems in > >your ports, and other port build failures? I'd prefer you did this > >before working on other port changes, since they've been broken for > >going on 3 months or more now. >=20 > But Kris, 1217 ports is a quite big work. Agreed? Yes, but it's just a style change (it doesn't fix any errors), so it's lower priority than fixing port bugs. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAGv3pWry0BWjoQKURAvytAJ0cKYtTqElr/EmEn9zrCVwGrTXG6QCgjF/t 84vRP1viX607GqN/0vyhfdc= =CvuQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--
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