Re: pkg/26603

["Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%crufty.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/26603; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg%crufty.net@localhost>
To: Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/26603 
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:38:28 -0800

 On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:29:08 +0100, Roland Illig writes:
 >> It would probably be helpful to identify the exact problem you see, so
 >> that install-mk can be fixed to address it, and then it would probably
 >> make sense for install-mk to generate a PLIST (or rather +CONTENTS
 >> file) to reflect what it is doing, rather than have the makefile try
 >> to emulate it.
 
 >I think the best way to solve the problem would be to integrate the 
 >PLIST generation into the install-mk script. It could do this for every 
 >file:
 
 Yes, that's more or less what I had in mind.  
 
 >- Check if the target file does exist and then ...
 >   * cancel installation?
 >   * just ignore the file?
 >- Write the file name to the PLIST
 >
 >The install-mk script could be called like this:
 
 It should be quite simple to run install-mk -n (just prints what it
 wants to do) and munge that into a PLIST.
 
 --sjg