Big patches

[Helmut Schneider]

Chris Rees wrote:

> On 19 August 2011 11:18, Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Boris Samorodov wrote:
> >> You may try to reduce pkg-plist changes. Are you speaking about
> >> www/typo* ports? If yes, those ports have hardcoded PORTVERSION
> >> at pkg-plist. One can use make variables to dramatically reduce
> >> pkg-plist changes:
> > > 
> >
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist.html#PLIST-SUB
> > 
> > "dramatically reduce"? How? Currently it seems it gets even bigger:
> > 
> > [helmut at BSDHelmut ~]$ ls -s /usr/ports/www/typo3.org/pkg-plist
> >  592 /usr/ports/www/typo3.org/pkg-plist
> > [helmut at BSDHelmut ~]$ ls -s /usr/ports/www/typo3/pkg-plist
> >  672 /usr/ports/www/typo3/pkg-plist
> > [helmut at BSDHelmut ~]$
> > 
> 
> Just the once, but then the changes each time it's updated are
> smaller.

I see. I patched genplist to do the job.

Thanks.