Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:12:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: petef@absolutbsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I handle a FreeBSD-specific tarball? Message-ID: <200303102312.h2ANCcl4003958@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <20030310230402.GA79167@absolutbsd.org>
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>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:04:02 -0600
>From: Pete Fritchman <petef@absolutbsd.org>
>You want DISTNAME.
>DISTNAME= ${PORTNAME}_FreeBSD-${PORTVERSION}
Ah; thanks!
>(and ".${EXTRACT_SUFX}" will be automatically added; you'd need to
>include it if you were modifying ${DISTFILES}.)
Would it be better/worse/blue/...? to (only) specify EXTRACT_SUFX directly?
>| I have already tried suggesting that perhaps it would be easier for
>| such (semi-)automated approaches as the ports collection to make the
>| "gpsman-60.tgz" file the one that doesn't change. and create a
>| "-bleeding_edge" variant for folks who are doing things by hand. That
>| appears to be an option that he does not find acceptable (for reasons
>| I fail to understand or appreciate).
>He should learn that once you _release_ something, you don't change it.
>You release a new version :-) Most people can't seem to comprehend
>that, for some reason. Oh well.
Right. :-} I just maintain the port; he's the author....
Thanks again,
david (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
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