From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 6 6: 0:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf1.de (mail.surf1.de [194.25.165.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38DE37C00B; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 06:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@big.endian.de) Received: from neutron.cichlids.com (p3E9D38C1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.157.56.193]) by mail.surf1.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA30466; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:00:00 +0200 Received: from cichlids.cichlids.com (cichlids.cichlids.com [192.168.0.10]) by neutron.cichlids.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C582AC30; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:00:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: by cichlids.cichlids.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 36B2714A77; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:59:51 +0200 From: Alexander Langer To: Will Andrews Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: change of patches/ handling behaviour requested Message-ID: <20000606145951.A23932@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mail-Followup-To: Will Andrews , asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000606133430.A20509@cichlids.cichlids.com> <20000606085544.Q7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000606085544.Q7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com>; from andrews@technologist.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:55:44AM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 28 CA 4C 46 5B D3 A8 A8 E3 BA F3 4E 60 7D 7F X-PGP-at: finger alex@big.endian.de X-Verwirrung: Dieser Header dient der allgemeinen Verwirrung. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Will Andrews (andrews@technologist.com): > Great work, Alex! I think this patch should be implemented. One word > of caution should be made to porters that they need to remember the > order in which patches are run; if there's more than one patch across > these categories for the same file, they have to do the diffs in the > same order that the patches will be made. Or else there may be > conflicts (maybe not, depending on where the patches go). Yes. That should go into the porters-handbook and maybe a HEADSUP to ports. I'll write the porters-handbook part, if Satoshi-san commits it. Alex -- This is a FreeBSD advocacy ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message