From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: redux Re: patch: update-plist + texlive
To: ports@openbsd.org, edd@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 10:08:09 +0100

On 2026/07/06 18:58, Marc Espie wrote:
> 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 does not do anything.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> update-plist does take prefix into account.
> There's zero thing to do wrt that. What do you want ?...

this, or something similar:

for python: -D tests=${PREFIX}/lib/${PY_VERSION}/test
for erlang: -D wx=${PREFIX}/lib/${ERLANG_V}/lib/${ERL_WX}