On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > Adds two options (-h/-H and -t) to update-plist.
> 
> -H is already there but not documented (at least in the update-plist
> manual), what do these options do?
It doesn't do anything so far !

I sent a separate early patch earlier with the documentation.

I didn't send it again because cvs src/ports tsplit is annoying.
The currentg patch does whatever the latest patch says, for the
most part.

Index: update-plist.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /build/data/openbsd/cvs/src/share/man/man1/update-plist.1,v
diff -u -p -r1.10 update-plist.1
--- update-plist.1	14 Apr 2024 17:24:15 -0000	1.10
+++ update-plist.1	2 Jul 2026 14:35:39 -0000
@@ -29,11 +29,14 @@
 .Op Fl c Ar var
 .Op Fl E Ar ext
 .Op Fl e Ar ext
+.Op Fl H Ar hints
+.Op Fl h Ar hints
 .Op Fl I Ar var
 .Op Fl i Ar var
 .Op Fl j Ar jobs
 .Op Fl S Ar var
 .Op Fl s Ar var
+.Op Fl t Ar pkgpath
 .Op Fl X Ar path
 .Op Fl w Ar suffix
 .Fl -
@@ -114,6 +117,20 @@ Variable
 may expand to nothing, in which case the variable from
 .Fl c Ar var
 can be used to prevent duplicate entries.
+.It Fl H Ar hints
+Add an
+.Ar hints
+file, that contains locations of files in the format
+.Dl path subpackage
+as used for the texlive packages.
+Those hints are absolute and will preempt already existing entries.
+.It Fl h Ar hints
+Add an
+.Ar hints
+file, that contains locations of files in the format
+.Dl path subpackage
+as used for the texlive packages.
+Those hints are indicative and will not preempt already existing entries.
 .It Fl i Ar var
 Ignore variable
 .Ar var
@@ -152,6 +169,9 @@ e.g., for directories like
 .Pa /etc/rc.d
 or
 .Pa /usr/local .
+.It Fl t Ar pkgpath
+Trim files corresponding to another package in the ports tree,
+by ignoring entries in the corresponding packing-list.
 .It Fl v
 Verbose mode.
 Explain about directories stripped from dependencies.
@@ -164,6 +184,11 @@ that (usually) should not end into packi
 Exclude file at absolute
 .Ar path
 from the information recorded in the packing-list.
+The
+.Ar path
+goes through glob,
+as documented in
+.Xr perlfunc 3p .
 .El
 .Pp
 .Nm

> it would be nice if we can split to subpackages by install path.
> python, mariadb, erlang all have directories where any new files
> should be directed to specific plists (respectively: tests, tests,
> wx) and it would be great if that could be encoded in the Makefile.


Again: update-plist(1) already discriminates beased on PREFIX.
If you need something more, please spell it out !