Syntax of the INDEX file

[Vasil Dimov]

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:06:11PM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote:
> Hi!
> I have a question concerning the syntax of the index file at the top of 
> the ports tree.
> 
> I read in a comment in bsd.port.mk (line 4827) that it should look like 
> this:
> 
> distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \
> description-file|maintainer|categories|extract-depends| \
> patch-depends|fetch-depends|build-depends|run-depends|www site
> 
> However, this is not the case. I found out empirically that it looks 
> like this:
> 
> distribution-name|port-path|installation-prefix|comment| \
> description-file|maintainer|categories|build-depends| \
> run-depends|www site|extract-depends|patch-depends|fetch-depends
> 
> Is that correct?
> 

Both are correct.

The line you have found in bsd.port.mk (line 4809 in version 1.524)
is about `make describe' output rather than the contents of the INDEX
file.

When creating the INDEX file the output of all the `make describe'
commands is passed to Tools/make_index which reorders the fields.

- -- 
Vasil Dimov
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