Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:24:35 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Subject: Re: Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists? Message-ID: <20050121232435.GC18608@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <41F18A5C.703@FreeBSD.org> References: <20050121205202.4092fc5a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050121200310.GA47832@graf.pompo.net> <41F18A5C.703@FreeBSD.org>
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--c3bfwLpm8qysLVxt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Alex Dupre wrote: > Thierry Thomas wrote: > >- if for some reason the port becomes uncomplete on certain platforms > >or after an upgrade, because a file is not built, we don't notice it. > > =3D> 6 negative aspects. >=20 > And if for any reason (=3Dwrong logic on plist creation) the dynamic=20 > package list includes some extraneous (maybe manually created) files,=20 > they'll be deleted after an upgrade. > =3D> 7 negative aspects. The plist has be created before the install happens so I don't think the obvious way to do this isn't actually possiable. Even if you could install before creating your plist, it would be fairly obviously wrong to trust anything outside your port skeleton's working directory. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --c3bfwLpm8qysLVxt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8Y8zXY6L6fI4GtQRAmsRAKDB1lnE0PjQjusUruCMdjdtc9eRKACgvVcs zwiFaYoeYd6REGkRpsR4JS8= =r19R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --c3bfwLpm8qysLVxt--
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