Big patches

[Helmut Schneider]

Boris Samorodov wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Helmut Schneider wrote:
> 
> > I've been told that dynamic pkg-plists are bad or at least should be
> > avoided´at most costs.
> 
> > Now, all my patches for Typo3 seem blocked by a "SPAM Filter" or at
> > least take 2 days until I get reply. See PR159878-81, I submitted
> > the patches on tuesday.
> 
> > So, what should I do? Still create full pkg-plists and hope that the
> > patch passes the FreeBSD PR system or fall back to dynamic
> > pkg-plists?
> 
> You may try to reduce pkg-plist changes. Are you speaking about
> www/typo* ports? If yes, those ports have hardcoded PORTVERSION
> at pkg-plist. One can use make variables to dramatically reduce
> pkg-plist changes:
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist.html#PLIST-SUB

"dramatically reduce"? How? Currently it seems it gets even bigger:

[helmut at BSDHelmut ~]$ ls -s /usr/ports/www/typo3.org/pkg-plist
 592 /usr/ports/www/typo3.org/pkg-plist
[helmut at BSDHelmut ~]$ ls -s /usr/ports/www/typo3/pkg-plist
 672 /usr/ports/www/typo3/pkg-plist
[helmut at BSDHelmut ~]$