Hi Mark,
Maybe I missed the mail or something, but could you also comment about
the new "@tag" thingy that I saw working on ?
I'm just porting LXQt and I see that is related for example with the
desktop updates.

Cheers.
Elias.

2018-06-28 15:18 GMT-03:00 Marc Espie <[email protected]>:
> Quick reminder: the new update-plist has options to make it more convenient
> (waaaay faster) Make use of them for big ports!
>
> -C dir: cache directory stripping info in that dir
> -n: don't move plist info around, put new stuff into "new" files
> -F: do not try to run pkg_locate.
>
> Those can be passed on the command-line thru UPDATE_PLIST_OPTS
> (that's the user settings, UPDATE_PLIST_ARGS is the stuff that actually
> ends up in makefiles).
>
> I routinely run update-plist several times on the same port.
> -C saves a lot of time, -n avoids having to remove and remove orig
> files all the time.  And running pkg_locate can usually get run once
> or twice.
>
> As long as you stay with the same port, -C  is 100% safe.
> I usually do an initial run of
>     make update-plist UPDATE_PLIST_OPTS='-C /tmp/cache -n'
> to catch on initial conflicts early.
> then a lot of tweaks with
>     make update-plist UPDATE_PLIST_OPTS='-C /tmp/cache -n -F'
> and the "final" run with
>     make update-plist UPDATE_PLIST_OPTS='-C /tmp/cache'
> to be sure.
>

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