Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:00:34 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager modifying bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <49B5BBB2.4080405@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20090308210404.3895216d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <49B41108.8060105@telenix.org> <20090308210404.3895216d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:40:08 -0400 > Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > >> Here's the portmanager listing, maybe someone here can tell me what's >> causing portmanager to want to patch my bsd.port.mk, and why the >> patchfile should be so far off, and what might be the CORRECT way to >> fix this. Oh, BTW, I run current, and keep myself that way via cvsup. > > IIRC the patch was made so that when portmanager built a port, the > makefile would call back into portmanager to let it modify the > dependencies. Portmanager had a major rewrite just before the original > author had a row with some FreeBSD people and abandoned the project. > AFAIK the feature wasn't yet used, so it doesn't matter if the patch > doesn't apply since it's a null operation. Ahh, I didn't realize that portmanager was moribund. OK, I can figure out what to do from here, then, thanks. I might not like the method being used by portmanager very much, but it's not worth complaining about a dead port. Too many other choices, aren't there? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm1u6sACgkQz62J6PPcoOlcfQCgnXJkaeu1SOXMhcWxWhlVMQFc 9lcAni5kfl+jmQE1C3b6t0lQkdocH+HL =OTs8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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