* Martin Gignac [2006-10-06]:
> At step 20 in the checklist it says to perform a 'make install'.
> However, as far as I understand it a while a 'make install ' implies
> the 'fake' and 'package' targets, it does not imply the 'plist' one.

The text is confusing, I'd say step 20 is the fake stage, which runs
'make install' internally.

> At the same time I can't help but feel that the documentation is
> probably correct and that I'm just not getting the point of how it's
> all supposed to work.

There were several attempts at improving the porting documentation.
AFAIK, these never resulted in published work.
 
> Another small question concerning the 'plist' target: when reading the
> bsd.port.mk(5) man page I noticed that there was no mention of 'plist'
> as a target, only 'update-plist'. Are these two targets identical, or
> is the 'plist' target considered obsolete (yet still works).

Both targets are identical.

Nikolay

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