Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 05:42:53 -0700
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc: ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: rm -rf ${WRKDIR} in do-extract
Message-ID: <22510.809700173@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:35:57 PDT." <199508291135.EAA14810@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> The only reason I can think of it is (since we are here, there sure > isn't a work/.extract_done) to safeguard against the case when the > previous extraction failed in the middle and left a half-baked work/ That's correct. > subdirectory. If that's the case, it (and the following "mkdir work" > line) should probably move to the main "extract" target, these are > "meta" stuff (just like the cookies) that the do-* targets shouldn't > have to worry about.... I agree - this was poorly designed initially. Go for it! Jordan
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