Hi Edward, Edward wrote on Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 05:20:56PM +0800:
> I thought pkg_create(1) is worth mentioning in the porting checklist so > that a new porter would know where to find more information on PLIST > variables & annotations that's useful to the PLIST file. It is indeed strange that the porting guide fails to mention the pkg_create(1) manual at all. > The below patch appended the sentence "PLIST variables/annotations can > be found in pkg_create(1)." to the second paragraph of item 23, chapter > 2.2 of Porting guide[1]. Fair enough, that seems the natural place to mention it, so i have committed a tweaked version of your patch. Yours, Ingo > Index: guide.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/ports/guide.html,v > retrieving revision 1.29 > diff -u -p -r1.29 guide.html > --- guide.html 21 Jun 2014 12:17:47 -0000 1.29 > +++ guide.html 25 Jul 2014 09:17:40 -0000 > @@ -506,7 +506,9 @@ This file is a candidate packing list. > Peruse <tt>PLIST</tt> and verify that everything was installed and that it > was > installed in the proper locations. > Anything not installed can be added to a port <tt>Makefile</tt> > -<tt>post-install</tt> rule. > +<tt>post-install</tt> rule. <tt>PLIST</tt> variables/annotations can be > found in > +<a > href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?sektion=1&query=pkg_create" > +>pkg_create(1)</a>. > <p> > Ports that install shared libraries will have another file called > <tt>PFRAG.shared</tt>.

