USE_LINUX_RPM and PORTDOCS

Ganael LAPLANCHE ganael.laplanche at martymac.com
Sat May 24 18:00:18 UTC 2008


On Sat, 24 May 2008 19:38:44 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote

> > Not sure about that because when using AUTOMATIC_PLIST in bsd.linux-rpm.mk,
>
> AUTOMATIC_PLIST is evil. For linux-rpm ports I see absolutely no value
> in using it (we just added it to cut down the noise from one committer,
> one or two ports out of all the ones we have is not going to hurt us
> that much). So don't care about it.

Ok.

> > Great, but I'd say that it should be done a little bit later (may be
> > at pre-install stage). "Extract" stage according to bsd.ports.mk
> > "Unpacks ${DISTFILES} into ${WRKDIR}".
>
> Removing unwanted stuff in post-extract is not uncommon. I don't think
> a patch for linux-rpm.mk with something like this would be a bad
> solution.

Ok, great. As I said earlier, I'll try to provide a patch to bsd.linux-rpm.mk to
handle that.

Thanks for your help :)

Ganaël LAPLANCHE
ganael.laplanche at martymac.com
http://www.martymac.com



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