distfile belongs to?

Wesley Shields wxs at atarininja.org
Mon Dec 4 15:20:47 PST 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:56:40PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Wesley Shields wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:12:41PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> Robert Huff wrote:
> >>> 	Let's suppose I have a list of tarballs
> >>> (e.g. foobar-1.23.456.tar.gz).  How do I tell which port each file
> >>> belongs to?  "pkg_info" only lists the end results.
> >> The correct answer is, "not easily." You can look at the code for
> >> sysutils/portmaster to get an idea of how you could do it, but what
> >> really needs to happen is for someone to write the code to embed that
> >> data in the +CONTENTS file.
> > 
> > I took a stab at this over the weekend.  It's broken up into two parts.
> > [1] is the addition to pkg_create and pkg_info and [2] is the addiction
> > to bsd.port.mk.
> > 
> > I mentioned this to pav@ on IRC a few days ago and I believe he and I
> > may have miscommunicated regarding the use of this patch.  With that
> > said, I figured I would toss this out to the list as a possible way of
> > recording the distfile(s) and patchfile(s) associated with a given
> > port/package.
> > 
> > The end result is a series of @distfile foo/bar.tar.gz lines in
> > +CONTENTS.  You can then use pkg_info -F to get a listing of them.
> > 
> > It's my first time doing something like this so please be gentle. :)
> > 
> > -- WXS
> > 
> > [1]: http://www.atarininja.org/~wxs/patches/distfile-in-contents-part1.diff
> > [2]: http://www.atarininja.org/~wxs/patches/distfile-in-contents-part2.diff
> 
> After a cursory exam this looks really great! I'd love to see this, or
> something like it added ASAP. At minimum the bsd.port.mk patch should
> definitely be added even if it takes a while for the other stuff to
> percolate.
> 
> Doug

I'm fairly certain that the bsd.port.mk patch requires the other one
(pkg_create will fall over when it encounters the @distfile lines).  I'd
be happy to send-pr it if nobody objects in a day or two.

-- WXS


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