cvs commit: ports/games Makefile ports/games/linux-ut2003-demo Makefile distinfo pkg-descr ports/games/linux-ut2003-demo/files ut2003-demo.in

[Pav Lucistnik]

Volker Stolz píše v po 05. 09. 2005 v 17:11 +0200:
> Am 04. Sep 2005 um 18:16 CEST schrieb Oliver Lehmann:
> > Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> > > It reduces the size of the port by about 40kb, and eases future updates.
> > 
> > 40kb? Wow, thats much in the age of 400GB disks. Dynamic package lists
> > makes it nearly impossible to find out which files a port provides.
> > >From time to time (at least) I need this information before I'm going to
> > install the port.
> 
> I have to admit that I convinced myself not too long ago that the *ports*
> plist-data is not for human consumption, although you might find old mail
> from me where I state the contrary.
> In fact I began working on a pet-project which would extract meta-data from
> the *packages* (since I'm incidently sitting two floors above a local mirror).
> The basic functionality would be at least to scan statically for conflicting
> files. Mind you, I only have a +CONTENTS-parser (written in Haskell), and
> trying to get a PhD is severely interfering with anything that'd qualify
> as "having fun"....

Simon got this working, directly on ftp-master... the problem is that
resulting dataset is useless because of huge size.

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Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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