Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:41:57 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: FreeBSD ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>, Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: marking ports BROKEN vs. IGNORE Message-ID: <40548B55.40406@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4054533C.7080503@fillmore-labs.com> References: <4054533C.7080503@fillmore-labs.com>
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Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > In a recent discussion we noticed that there are no clear guidelines > whether a port should be marked IGNORE or BROKEN. [ ... ] Yay! Someone who wants to clarify this. :-) > The FreeBSD Porter's Handbook is not excessively clear about that point: > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-broken.html>; > > - "If in doubt, do use IGNORE ..." > > bsd.port.mk says: > > - IGNORE [...] should be used sparingly. > > So maybe we can get a clarification on this and add this to the porter's > handbook? This is close enough to PR docs/62808 that I can probably help. However, the best way of avoiding this type of problem is to reduce or close the gap between what bsd.port.mk and the other Makefiles do, and what the documentation says they do. :-) -- -Chuck
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