Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/install
To: None <tv@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 02/14/2005 11:39:50
Todd Vierling wrote:
> Module Name: pkgsrc
> Committed By: tv
> Date: Mon Feb 14 16:30:35 UTC 2005
>
> Modified Files:
> pkgsrc/mk/install: files
>
> Log Message:
> Remove "test ... -ef ...", which is unportable. Currently this is causing
> syntax errors (and unchanged example files to be left behind) on Interix;
> it probably causes a problem on others.
>
> (This test appears to work around a case where two files were exactly the
> same by inode, and have the script *not* delete the file in that case.
> I'm not exactly sure why that is desirable at all.)
This is to catch errors in adding files from the PLIST to the list of
files managed by the +INSTALL/+DEINSTALL scripts. This is just
historical code from the initial commit of the bsd.pkg.install.mk work
when pkgsrc was a bit messier, and can probably be safely removed.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>