From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 21 1:46:40 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DB514D4C; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 10vzhh-000KGJ-00; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:45:21 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: John Birrell Cc: billf@jade.chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en/handbook/ports chapter.sgml In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:11:26 +1000." <199906210011.KAA07097@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:45:21 +0200 Message-ID: <77890.929954721@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:11:26 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > As a developer, I would never have thought to look in the ports section > of the handbook for this sort of information. I'm sure developers the world over share your sentiment. However, the issue here is that it's not developers that Bill is trying to help with this -- it's porters. And as a porter, I _would_ expect to find this sort of information where Bill's suggesting we put it. I'd say Bill's change should be accompanied by the one suggested below. Ciao, Sheldon. Index: bsd.port.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v retrieving revision 1.313 diff -u -d -r1.313 bsd.port.mk --- bsd.port.mk 1999/05/10 23:11:07 1.313 +++ bsd.port.mk 1999/06/21 08:43:57 @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ # makefile is being used on. Automatically set to # "FreeBSD," "NetBSD," or "OpenBSD" as appropriate. # OSREL - The release version (numeric) of the operating system. -# OSVERSION - The value of __FreeBSD_version. +# OSVERSION - The value of __FreeBSD_version. For an audit trail of +# this value, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/param.h +# # PORTOBJFORMAT - The object format ("aout" or "elf"). # # These variables are used to identify your port. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message