Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:58:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, marcel@scc.nl, obrien@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/linux-base-5.2 - Imported sources Message-ID: <199907090458.VAA78760@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990708220450.C29714@mad> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jul 8, 99 10:04:50 pm"
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Tim Vanderhoek writes: > On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 10:37:40PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:21:53PM +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > That's why the port is call linux-* instead of redhat-*. It's not RH > > > > We also don't need 2 ports (or more for > > > that matter), I just want to get a new version out in the open before I > > > nuke the old one. > > If this is your only goal, then the port naming was even more wrong > than was at first apparent. > > You should name one of the "linux-base" and one of them > "linux-base-devel" if your reason for having 2 ports is as above. > > I can explain the reasons that the ports system usually uses the above > convention, if you want. If you do, how about getting Satoshi to add them to the ports committers' guide: http://www.freebsd.org/~asami/cvsguide.txt -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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