From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 7 15:21:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08744 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:21:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spawn.nectar.com (spawn.nectar.com [204.27.67.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08712; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Received: from localhost.nectar.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=spawn.nectar.com) by spawn.nectar.com with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zR1wY-0006GF-00; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:20:26 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <199810072128.OAA11079@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> References: <199810072128.OAA11079@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: What's the right way to handle old bsd.port.mk? To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 17:20:26 -0500 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Point me to the documentation in question and I'd be glad to add a paragraph or two about keeping up with ports if it appears to be needed. Hmm, now I get why NetBSD has their makefiles as part of the collection rather than part of the base system. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org On 7 October 1998 at 14:28, asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) wrote: > * What should a port that needs to know PORTOBJFORMAT do on a system > * with an older bsd.port.mk? > > Nothing. Ports shipped with releases go out with matching > bsd.port.mk's; people using ports-current are expected to get the > latest bsd.port.mk. > > The latter part is becoming more of a problem lately; maybe if you can > go look into documentation to make it clearer, it will be a much > better use of your time IMO. :) > > Satoshi > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNhvpKjeRhT8JRySpAQESoQP/WWqC7FyqzlKxdSYN9jPLktTl475xmg64 pmJryRVh4/uoa6PGBc9ajMmAzzqbjWPLlJ6b/XcMWC6idtkrD3J2aElCAE50Mpfe 0uXG4jYFAX4G201YLkbAXO/nR6R2eK1BWBX1jKSd57t2tkA66uXP2vYvHbCkp5oB Oo3k924XhyI= =+o0K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message