New pkg-message[.in] guideline idea

[Philip M. Gollucci]

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On 06/23/10 19:15, Doug Barton wrote:
>> I think we need 2 things:
>> > 
>> > 1) All pkg-message whether .in or not go
>> >    through the 'sed' that SUB_LIST/PLIST_SUB do.
> I like this idea better than forcing them all to be in /files, and I
> can't see any reason not to do it.
The other benefit is you can carry over the PLIST logic with @comment to
conditionalize lines in the message and thus eliminate all that crap
from Makefiles.


> 
>> > 2) You collect them in to /var/db/pkg and loop
>> >    and display at end.
>> > 
>> > As a consequence all formatting should be removed from the individual
>> > pkg-message[.in] files and added in #2.
> I'm ambivalent about this. My first thought was that the formatting
> should happen in step #1. What portmaster does is build each port one at
> a time, and it makes a note if a port has a pkg-message. Then it does
> what you suggest in #2 by cat'ing them all to $PAGER. However, thinking
> more about it I could see how not doing the formatting until step 2
> could work, so however it turns out to be "easiest" should be fine.
I believe we are agreeing. I didn't say anything about
portmaster/portupgrade.  The pkg/make infrastructure needs to do it at
the end so that it works via pkg_add, make, or portmaster et al.




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