Re: How is elixir-devel/pkg-plist generated?

On 12 Dec 2022, at 1:49, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, at 02:02, Pat Maddox wrote:
>> Looking at
>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/lang/elixir-devel/pkg-plist
>> I assume it’s generated by a script.
>>
>> Can someone please share the script?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pat
>
> Hey Pat
>
> make pkg-plist 
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book/#plist-dynamic
>
> Although in practice I just update the DISTVERSION run ‘make 
> stage-a’ and fix up a handful of errors manually, this makes it 
> easier to get a feel for what files changed.

Thanks Dave!

Neither pkg-plist nor stage-a are targets from what I can tell.

The packing list is static rather than dynamic because it uses pkg-plist 
file.

To generate a pkg-plist from the installed files, I believe it is:

make stage
make makeplist | tail -n +2 | tee pkg-plist

Then
make clean stage # necessary so pkg-plist will be included in 
work/.PLIST.mktmp, and thus the final packing list

On my machine, that sequence produces a pkg-plist with 973 lines as 
compared to the 1091 currently in git.

I’m not sure what the difference is. I’ll need to experiment more 
with poudriere test to see if I can figure out what’s going on.

Pat