Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:41:53 -0800 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: adam@veda.is Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH_PRFX in bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <199603062241.OAA01391@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603062113.VAA01980@veda.is> (message from Adam David on Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:13:28 %2B0000 (GMT))
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> Ok. I was considering adding a new variable for putting all files
> (distfiles + patchfiles) in a subdirectory. Currently some ports just
> get around this by defining ${DISTDIR} = ${PORTSDIR}/distfiles/<foo>.
Another thing I forgot to say -- the reason why I wanted to do this
was so that we can descend to the appropriate subdirectory of
ftp.freebsd.org as a backup site. (Your PATCH_PRFX code correctly
handles this, but porters setting DISTDIR doesn't.)
Satoshi
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