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Date:      Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:46:46 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port building cookie files changed?
Message-ID:  <20060711024646.GC946@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20060711003919.GA1977@picobyte.net>
References:  <20060710233013.GB946@k7.mavetju> <20060711003919.GA1977@picobyte.net>

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:39:20AM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:30:13AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > 
> > In an old ports framework, the cookie files were like this:
> >     .patch_done.ipv6calc-0.51._usr_local
> > 
> > In the current framework, the cookie files are like this:
> >     .patch_done.ipv6calc._usr_local
> > 
> > This gives false, or bad, or broken, cookies, because when I rebuild
> > the same port with a different version number, it thinks it already
> > has done the patching (and extracting, and building etc).
> > 
> > So... who sneaked this in bsd.port.mk and why?
> > 
> 
> According to the CVS log:
> 
> * Use a consistent name for the cookies file when PKGNAMEPREFIX/SUFFIX
>   are set after bsd.port.pre.mk.
> 
> The patch / an explanation is in ports/94219.

So it went from PKGNAME to PORTNAME, which kind of killed the
PORTVERSION, PORTREVISION and PORTEPOCH parts of it.

These should be added again. The _COOKIES aren't used anywhere in
the pre-section, nor are they user variables. Moving them to the
post-section in the original form would have been a better solution.
IMHO of course :-)

Edwin
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