From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Mar 26 11:26:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE63714C1B; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA264344334; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:52:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:52:14 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Satoshi Asami Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup and Fetch In-Reply-To: <199903261348.FAA18790@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Satoshi Asami wrote: > P.S. Credit goes to billf for some of the ideas. WooHoo! The discussion for this functionality sprung from me whining about a way to make the ports tree more self-sufficient. the ports/Mk directory and this seem to be moving us in this direction. Hooks like these allow us to possibly avoid problems (and a million PRs) regarding the "fetch -A" and "bsd.port.{pre,post}.mk" changes. Thanks Satoshi for the great work! - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message