Base packaging

Paul Richards paul at freebsd-services.com
Wed Sep 17 12:57:02 PDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:53:41PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 04:27  pm, Paul Richards wrote:
> >I was thinking of adding an option to install so it registers the file
> >in a plist rather than actually doing the install. A seperate "make
> >plist" target could then be used as a helper target to automate the
> >generation of plists.
> 
> I think the NetBSD guys have already done something like this.  Luke 
> Mewburn (IIRC) mentioned this in his 'cross building' talk at BSDCon.

Yeah, I've been looking at that.

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