Subject: Re: different plists on other OSes
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/21/2003 09:34:36
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:35:33PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:

> > 	As far as I could tell, both Solaris and Linux versions of pkgsrc use
> > the same pkgsrc tree as NetBSD does.  How do those handle different PLIST
> > contents, different patches, etc...?
> 
> Take a look at mk/bsd.pkg.mk around line 600.  If a package has a
> PLIST.common and a PLIST.${OPSYS}, then those two are combined.  Compare
> with security/openssl, for example.

security/openssl is a bad example because it still uses it's own
manual way of handling this (I have out-of-date fixes for this which
I'll need to ressurect).

a better example is x11/xwatchwin.

g.