svn commit: r370242 - in head/emulators: . hyperv-is hyperv-is/files

[John Marino]

On 10/7/2014 16:14, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
> +--On 7 octobre 2014 15:04:55 +0200 John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st>
> wrote:
> | On 10/7/2014 11:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> |> +--On 6 octobre 2014 22:58:50 +0000 John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org>
> |> wrote:
> |> | + at cwd /boot/kernel
> |> | +%%A%%hv_ata_pci_disengage.ko
> |> | +%%A%%hv_netvsc.ko
> |> 
> |> Please, do not use @cwd, it is confusing, and not needed since pkg_* has
> |> gotten out.  List files with their path like this :
> |> %%A%%/boot/kernel/hv_ata_pci_disengage.ko
> | 
> | In my defense:
> | 1) It works (tested pretty thoroughly)
> | 2) The alternative to @cwd is not documented in UPDATING so I had no
> | idea what the alternative was.
> | 3) cwd is documented here with no alternative:
> | https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/plist-keywords.html
> | 
> | So it's not really fair to bang on us for stuff that is undocumented.
> | right?  This theme is getting repetitive too.
> 
> Well, it's a bit the other way around, @cwd was the alternative to listing
> the full path to the filenames, so, I could document the alternative to the
> alternative, but it feels a bit silly :-)

It was my understanding that pkg-plist lists assigned a ${PREFIX} prefix
and @cwd was the only way to list files outside of the prefix.  This is
why I was surprised that stuff like /var/db/mydir worked.  I don't know
when absolute paths got supported.

for me, absolute path is something new, not a baseline.
Why would @cwd even exist if it wasn't necessary in the past?

John