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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 1997 04:39:23 +1000
From:      David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>, obrien@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  ports/editors/staroffice Makefile
Message-ID:  <19970420043923.26057@usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <19970419030618.16801@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Sat Apr 19 03:06:18 EST 1997
References:  <199704190949.CAA01421@blimp.mimi.com> <199704190954.TAA29956@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <19970419030618.16801@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sat Apr 19 03:06:18 EST 1997, David O'Brien writes:
> > Um, is MESSAGE meant to be a script?  I had assumed it was just a flat
> > text file.
> 
> It is just a flat text file.  Satoshi, probably ment processing of the
> files in pkg/ as if you were doing a package install.  This includes the
> INSTALL scripts and some commands in PLIST (please correct me if I'm
> wrong).

Hmm. What about adding this functionality to pkg_add and adding
the file to /var/db/pkg/<pkg-name> so both types of ports users
get to see it? (and, of course, +MESSAGE needs to be added in
pre-build packages where applicable).


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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