Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:41:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH_PRFX in bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <199603062341.XAA07033@veda.is> In-Reply-To: <199603062241.OAA01391@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "Mar 6, 96 02:41:53 pm"
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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.)
It was another person who completed part of this support (just for the record).
Yes, the main idea was to handle such cases generically. This new change is an
improvement, though slightly more restrictive (which is not necessarily a bad
thing either).
--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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