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Date:      Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:43:42 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gregg Cooper <bsdcrank@squbes.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports disconnected from category Makefiles
Message-ID:  <20050809154342.GB88538@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <42F8B8D6.4040304@squbes.com>
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:08:22AM -0400, Gregg Cooper wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>>>	devel/cscout-devel
> >>>>	www/rt34
> >>>
> >>>They're probably repo-copies in progress.
> >>
> >>Other ports which put things under distfiles in a way that portsclean is
> >>unhappy with are:
> >>
> >>	games/freeciv
> >>	japanese/cal.rb
> >>	mail/quickml
> >>	print/foomatic-db
> >>	print/lgrind
> >=20
> > I'm not sure what you're saying the problem with these ports is.
>=20
> They all leave files under the distfiles directory that the ports tree
> doesn't know about. For instance, with devel/cscout-devel not being in
> the category Makefile, portsclean doesn't know about
> devel/cscout-devel/distinfo, and thus asks to delete the port distfiles
> (cscout-2.1-freebsd-i386.tar.gz & cscout-2.1-neutral.tar.gz).

Right, because that port is deliberately not connected to the build
yet, and your find | xargs did the wrong thing.

> With print/foomatic-db doing a CVS checkout (currently in directory
> distfiles/foomatic-db-20050309) and creating a tarball from this
> (foomatic-db-20050309.tar.bz2), and leaving behind the CVS checkout
> directory, portsclean doesn't know about all of these individual files,
> and asks to delete each of them (about 2,260 files!).

OK, that one is wrong..the port should be fetching a tarball and not
checking out via CVS, which means it's unusable by anyone behind a
restrictive firewall.

Kris

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