From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 22 12:48:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 12:48:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A893137B400; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12201; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:48:42 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200012222048.JAA12201@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: Dan Moschuk Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 09:48:40 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: New bsd.port.mk patch [part II] Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, developers@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I read your original message regarding the patch to detect old port layouts. Very good idea. We've encountered a few users having this problem lately. I have a proposal for modifying the "upgrade kit" message. Many people find the message confusing. I think the proposed message may reduce the confusion level. I suspect my mailer may have wrapped the patch. If so, the patch is also available from . --- bsd.port.mk.original Sat Dec 23 09:13:30 2000 +++ bsd.port.mk Sat Dec 23 09:35:34 2000 @@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ SYSTEMVERSION= 0 .endif .if ${BSDPORTMKVERSION} > ${SYSTEMVERSION} -IGNORE= ": Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the instructions" +IGNORE= ": Please read this entire message and decide which of the two solutions applies to you. Your ports system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You either need a fresh make world or a ports upgrade kit. If you decide you need an an upgrade kit, please go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ [or a mirror site] and follow the instructions found there." .endif .endif -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message