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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:55:11 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports
Message-ID:  <p06020413bca1caacc9af@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20040413124740.GC75799@pc5.i.0x5.de>
References:  <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]> <20040413124740.GC75799@pc5.i.0x5.de>

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At 2:47 PM +0200 4/13/04, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
>* Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> [2004-04-12 23:40 -0400]:
>>  subset of the idea.  For instance, we might start out by just
>>  collapsing the distinfo, pkg-plist, and "files/patches-*" files
>>  into a pkg-data file, and leave the other files for some later
>>  project.
>
>Right now it's quite easy to throw local patches just into the
>files directory without getting any problems with cvs (no
>conflicts). You can even use symlinks (I do), so you won't
>delete your patches if you forget to store them anywhere else
>if you recreate your ports tree (after messing it up for example).

This is true.  I will make sure that we would continue to support
that ability.  I think it would be better to make it more explicit
that those files are "local patches".  For instance, we could pick
up any files that are found in portname/localfiles/patches-*

I have not thought about that too much yet, but I can see it
is something that the pkg-data project would need to support.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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