How useful is %%DATADIR%%, anyway?

[Chris Rees]

On 23 March 2012 21:12, Michael Scheidell <scheidell at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 3/23/12 4:14 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Just as a thought, I decided to try stripping out all mentions of
>> %%DATADIR%%, %%DOCSDIR%% etc from pkg-plist, and replacing them with
>> PORTDOCS=*, PORTDATA=* in the Makefiles etc.
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> Don't forget EXAMPLESDOC!

PORTEXAMPLES ;)

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>> I propose modifying the Porter's Handbook to discourage use of
>> %%PORTDOCS%% etc in static plists, and encourage the use of PORTDOCS
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> want to take a stab at this one?
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> <*http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/165820>
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> you are saying that instead of
> *
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> +%%PORTDOCS%%%%DOCSDIR%% in the plist, this one, you could basically
> eliminate plist-file (save 2k on the disk?)
> and put them in PLIST_FILES in Makefile.

Almost.  PORTDOCS=* in the Makefile basically uses find on ${DOCSDIR}
and sticks it into TMPPLIST.  The advantage is that we then have one
line in the Makefile instead of up to 2000 in pkg-plist.

> what if the 'docs' are in a strange place?  like this port?
> how would this port be fixed?

Force the port to install docs to the correct place, as per hier :)

Chris