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&amp;query=pkg_create";
> +>pkg_create(1)</a>.
>  <p>
>  Ports that install shared libraries will have another file called
>  <tt>PFRAG.shared</tt>.

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