From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Dec 23 8:15:51 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 08:15:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from citusc.usc.edu (citusc.usc.edu [128.125.38.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B21237B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 08:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc.usc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA10469; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 08:17:03 -0800 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 08:17:03 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Jeremy Norris , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Port Message-ID: <20001223081703.B10445@citusc.usc.edu> References: <20001217004251.A47353@external.org> <20001218134601.A5634@FreeBSD.org> <20001219040318.B7935@babylon.merseine.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:37:53AM +0100 Sender: kris@citusc.usc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:37:53AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jeremy Norris writes: > > What about doing the following in each of the XFree86-4-subports: > > MASTERDIR=3D${PORTSDIR}/x11/XFree86-4 > > WRKDIR=3D${MASTERDIR}/work > > Then make XFree86-4 like other meta-ports, except have it fetch the > > distfiles. > >=20 > > Thus all the XFree86-4-subports could share the same working directory,= no? >=20 > No, because the ports system keeps metadata in WRKDIR. You might be > able to get away with WRKSRC=3D${MASTERDIR}/work/xc though. But it'd be > very tricky to get all the targets (especially the fetch, extract and > patch targets) for each port right. The cookie files can also be overridden, I do believe; they could have names derived from the port. Regardless, these problems can be overcome somehow, and this is the correct route to go down, IMO. Kris --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6RM//Wry0BWjoQKURAtnQAJ9vguBCLN9YHxWXwiXS9p0n/yT5cQCfYd9R GHajSHOnPke0TcDzTgruElA= =mfA6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message