Dynamic plists

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 22/04/2010 01:45, Rob Farmer wrote:
> I maintain math/scilab and am preparing to update it. This port has a
> huge plist (slightly under 15000 lines), hundreds of which change
> depending on what options are selected. It is a bit of a pain to
> update. The porters handbook makes vague reference to dynamic plists -
> so I was wondering, would this be a good idea? And if so, what is the
> best way to make one?

You normally base it on the output of
${FIND} -s PATH -type f
${FIND} -d PATH -type d | ${SED} 's,^, at dirrm ,'

Of course there's normally more to it, but that's the basic principle.


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