Dynamic plists

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Thu Apr 22 06:57:12 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:18:29AM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> On 22/04/2010 01:45, Rob Farmer wrote:
> > I maintain math/scilab and am preparing to update it. This port has a
> > huge plist (slightly under 15000 lines), hundreds of which change
> > depending on what options are selected. It is a bit of a pain to
> > update. The porters handbook makes vague reference to dynamic plists -
> > so I was wondering, would this be a good idea? And if so, what is the
> > best way to make one?
> 
> You normally base it on the output of
> ${FIND} -s PATH -type f
> ${FIND} -d PATH -type d | ${SED} 's,^, at dirrm ,'
> 
> Of course there's normally more to it, but that's the basic principle.
> 

Or use auto-plist:
http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/portstools/auto-plist/
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