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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:56:04 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/misc Makefile ports/misc/instant-tinderbox Makefile pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <20051128075604.GM1239@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20051128061137.GA11774@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200511280557.jAS5va2I051976@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051128061137.GA11774@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:11:37AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I think this port is a bad idea.  It'll take a fairly long time to
> build on pointyhat from all the pkg_adds (and it will be right at the
> end of the package builds since it depends on everything else, so the
> whole build will end up waiting for it), and it's not useful for
> anyone apart from users of marcus' tinderbox scripts.  Therefore it
> should be reimplemented there instead.

If I add a .ifdef to it which prevents it from being attempted to
build on non-tinderbox systems, is that a good solution? Or does
the packaging system ignore IGNOREs?

Edwin

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