From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 24 08:19:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA22852 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:19:46 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA22846 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:19:43 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA18512; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:19:34 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507241519.IAA18512@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Strange entries in /usr/src/Makefile To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507241012.DAA29019@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Jul 24, 95 03:12:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2662 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > * Maybe I should have been more stuborn about adding them in the > * first place :-). > > I wish you were. :) > > * :-). I suggest you read the pmake tutorial in the 4.4BSD man set, > * also as /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/* on your FreeBSD 2.x system. > * It doesn't cover .mk files per se, but it does cover a lot of > * ground. > > Thanks. Well, I managed to "merge" all the skeleton targets into one, > the result is now sitting on thud and will go out to the "ports" list > for testing shortly. This change reduced 100 lines from bsd.port.mk. > (Yeah I know, not much but it's a start. ;) 100 lines is 100 lines!! Thats almost 9% by my count! > * You need a 1.x cvs tree, we can't have a 1.x cvs tree on Freefall legally, > * and I am not suppose to have one here myself :-(. > > Oh, is that so? I thought the agreement was to stop distributing the > source, I didn't know that it included just having them.... First parties to the agreement agreed to ``Stop all use of'' Net/2 derived code. Reading it is a ``use''. This does not effect 2nd parties like you, but since freefall does sit on WC property it is probably best that the bits are not on there any longer. > * > But that doesn't mean we should try to keep them separated as much as > * > possible. > * > * That may not mean it, but I am pretty sure the standing idea here is > * that ports should not contaminate /usr/src with port specific changes. > > Ayyyyy sorry, I meant to type "that does't mean we shouldn't try". We > are in agreement here. ;) ^^^^^^^^^ :-) Mean what you say, argghhh.. I mean, say what you mean :-):-) > * > Where can I find the old mail archives? > * > * /home/mail/archive on freefall. > > I already looked there, they don't have mails older than a few months. > That's why I asked for "old" mail archives. :) Did you look at the list.`date`.gz files?? I see dates on the compressed versions going back into 1994 for the commit logs, but your right, the hackers list only goes back 1 archive. Did someone trash the mail??? > * Julians reply was before I patched it, which was before I remeber the > * idea was that it would be a symlink to the location of ports. If > * Julian and Jordan say nuke it still, then go nuke it, but like I said > * in the opening. Any site complaining about lost functionality lands > * right in your lap. > > Ok, well I'll wait a few more days to give people to voice their > opinions before nuking it. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD