From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jun 8 9:36:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDAE37B8C9 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28583; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:36:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA49176; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:36:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006081636.JAA49176@vashon.polstra.com> To: alex@big.endian.de Reply-To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patches/ handling In-Reply-To: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> References: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com>, Alexander Langer wrote: > > Can the patches/ directory handling be changed? > > It's defenitely bad to have tons of same patches in patches.{arch} if > only _one_ patch differs. > > Can't we just change the behaviour to: > > * Suck in patches from a master-patch dir, patches/ > * _THEN_ patch with platform specific patches? I would really like to see this change too. The current scheme is a pain for the various Modula-3 ports. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message