Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi Asami) To: current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: HEADS UP: ports Makefiles being updated soon (forwarded) Message-ID: <200004070841.BAA88805@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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FYI. -PW === From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Subject: HEADS UP: ports Makefiles being updated soon To: ports@freebsd.org CC: committers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200004070815.BAA88701@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Hello world, As we have been discussing on the ports list, we have decided to introduce a slight syntax change to the port Makefiles regarding DISTNAME and PKGNAME. This change will be done this weekend. I will freeze the ports tree Friday night (U.S. Pacific Time) and a small group of volunteers will convert the entire tree in one pass. I will then unfreeze the tree and we can go back to business. I don't expect anything to break but since we are talking about over 3,000 ports, I can't guarantee that everything will go smooth. If you haven't cvsupped ports for a while, you may want to do it now. After the conversion, "old style" ports will no longer be accepted. Please read the handbook's porting section at, for instance, http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/porting.html#PORTING-SAMPLEM for details. (The above page seems to be still showing the old version -- the documentation change was committed today, so please check back later.) Also, make sure that you have the latest ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk if you are using anything from ports-current. This means, if you are cvsupping individual ports collections, you need to have "ports-base" in your cvsupfile. Thanks, Satoshi (and the friendly ports team) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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