From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Oct 14 21:19:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068A337B66C; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 21:19:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (right/backatcha) with ESMTP id e9F4IrL02002; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:18:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:18:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Gary Kline Cc: Brett Taylor , Chris Faulhaber , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: how noe Brown Ports! In-Reply-To: <20001014184048.B40211@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gary Kline wrote: > Hm, I remember that line from one of your earlier posts, > Brett. I just wasn't aware of the context.... > Myself, being more than a bit paranoid, would > opt for find /usr/port <&c> commands... , then re-cvsup'ing > just-in-case the find -exec /bin/rm -rf blew away something > incorrectly. ( I do believe in daemons, you know :) > > Suggest to avoid fellow stragglers from similar head-scratching, > we might want to post a Heads-Up to -questions; plus -stable. I submitted a small patch to bsd.port.mk to make it check for pkg/DESCR rather than the (possibly empty) pkg/ and patches/ directories. It's not going into the official bsd.port.mk, but you can put it in your own. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21885 -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message