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Date:      Sun, 8 Apr 2001 20:48:48 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make release broken with too many ports/distfiles...
Message-ID:  <20010408204848.L15938@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104082230120.1249-100000@nova.fnal.gov>; from zingelman@fnal.gov on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:38:37PM -0500
References:  <20010408202300.J15938@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.GSO.4.30.0104082230120.1249-100000@nova.fnal.gov>

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* Tim Zingelman <zingelman@fnal.gov> [010408 20:39] wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > >  $FreeBSD: src/release/Makefile,v 1.536.2.40 2000/03/27 16:49:58
> 
> > Please provide more context, which makefile is this patch to be
> > applied against?
> 
> See above... it is /usr/src/release/Makefile from 4.3-RC.
> 
> > What if ports/distfiles is a symlink?  Or is this only done during
> > make release?
> 
> Yes, only during 'make release'.  If I am reading things correctly, this
> is in a 'chroot ${CHROOTDIR}' environment.

You'll want to fling this at Jordan <jkh@freebsd.org>, he's the
release engineer. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.

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