Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:09:00 -0400 From: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can we please just remove the old Makefile headers? Message-ID: <CAFFB%2BpToDT5sO5gCcFc7qoktuBs5h3%2BCYGGrEZmfRD%2BMhm4iYA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120830195632.GQ14617@hub.freebsd.org> References: <503A8EF7.4060105@FreeBSD.org> <20120830195632.GQ14617@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 02:02:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> The old Makefile headers, ala: >> >> # New ports collection makefile for: BIND 9.9.x >> # Date created: 27 January 2012 >> # Whom: dougb >> # >> # $FreeBSD: head/dns/bind99/Makefile 301487 2012-07-24 19:23:23Z dougb $ >> >> have not served a purpose for longer than almost anyone who has a ports >> commit bit has been around. My proposal is simple, let's remove >> everything before the # $FreeBSD$. > > Traditions are great, particularly when they have meaning. When they > just become "Doing it that way because we always done it" is no > substitute for maintaining a tradition for a meaningful purpose. > >> >> In the past when this has been proposed the objection was that it would >> cause too much churn. If we had done this back when we had 5,000 ports >> then we would have solved the problem with less churn, and no drama for >> the 15,000 ports that followed. Every day we don't do this we make the >> "churn" problem worse, and deepen the roots of something that has no >> relevance. >> >> Can we please just deal with this now and be done with it? ... and yes, >> I am volunteering to help with and/or do the work myself. > > We discussed this on portmgr@, and we have agreed it is time to make the > change. > > We do request that this be done sparingly in the short term, as we do not > want to cause any additional churn on the repo as we approach our > upcoming Ports Feature Freeze, still tentatively scheduled for September > 7. > > So please proceed only on existing updates. Please do not do any > sweeping commits until we have the ports tree stablised post 9.1 > tagging. Also bear in mind that Redports/QAT queues a job for every > change done to a Makefile, we do not want to overburden the QAT at this > time. It is important to allow this service to run at peek efficiency > at this time to ensure it's full potential as we approach the upcoming > Feature Freeze. > > So without further ado, this is what we would like to see at the top of > the makefile > > # > # $FreeBSD$ > # > > PORTNAME= > > It is as easy as that :) This would make me happy. Another option I would like to throw out there is to just stick the # $FreeBSD$ at the end of the file so the first line is PORTNAME=
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