From: Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: redux Re: patch: update-plist + texlive
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 17:46:20 +0200

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 10:08:09AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 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}

I just tried for erlang.

It appears something is currently broken... new files should automatically
go to the same plist as the directory lib/${ERLANG_V}/lib/${ERL_WX}
but they don't.

approximate is not doing its job correctly.