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Date:      02 May 2000 01:28:58 -0700
From:      asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FYI: Missing DISTNAME for netpbm 8.4...
Message-ID:  <vqcya5tbbjp.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Philip Hallstrom's message of "Mon, 1 May 2000 17:09:56 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005011709050.42183-100000@illiad.adhesivemedia.com>

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 * From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>

 * Hmm... must be me... actually... it's 3.2-19990615-STABLE, not sure where
 * the port stuff is at (shouldn't it complain though if my "port
 * foundation" is out of sync???)...

Yeah, that's the problem.  If you have a bsd.port.mk that's too new,
it will complain since we know what could be missing, but if it's too
old, it doesn't know what's going on (it's hard to expect a June 1999
bsd.port.mk to predict what we'd be doing in April 2000!).

I hoped moving bsd.port.mk to /usr/ports/Mk from /usr/share/mk would
eliminate these problems.  It has been reduced but not completely gone
as it's been evident the past couple of weeks.

I've thought about adding some sort of "timeout" in bsd.port.mk, so
users will have to upgrade their ports-base collection from time to
time, to ensure they will all have a reasonably new bsd.port.mk.  What
do you guys think?

Satoshi


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