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In-reply-to: <199603062113.VAA01980@veda.is> (message from Adam David on Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:13:28 +0000 (GMT))
Subject: Re: PATCH_PRFX in bsd.port.mk
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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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