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Date:      Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:08:29 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, imp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DISTDIR name collision...
Message-ID:  <20201106010828.GA31099@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201106001347.GY31099@funkthat.com>
References:  <20201106001347.GY31099@funkthat.com>

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John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 16:13 -0800:
> I just discovered that we have a variable name colission between the
> FreeBSD base repo, and the ports tree.  DISTDIR is used by the ports
> repo for:
> # DISTDIR           - Where to search for and store copies of original sources
> 
> But DISTDIR is also used by FreeBSD base for (from bsd.own.mk):
> # DISTDIR       Change the tree where the file for a distribution
> #               gets installed (see /usr/src/release/Makefile). [not set]
> 
> except that it doesn't just get used in release/Makefile, it's used in
> the base Makefile.inc1 for a number of things that I'm not entirely sure
> what it's for.
> 
> Can someone figure out what we should do in this case?
> 
> This was discovered because ezjail-admin sets DISTDIR for ports, but it
> was breaking my -DNO_ROOT installworld by putting the METALOG in an
> incorrectly documented place (since fixed)...

It was pointed out that there was a review already underway for this:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26617

Can this just be tested by re, and committed?

Thanks.

-- 
  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."



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