From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 12:42:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF9D106567E for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:42:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from smtp.timeweb.ru (smtp.timeweb.ru [217.170.79.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7548FC2B for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:42:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from [213.148.20.85] (helo=hive.panopticon) by smtp.timeweb.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L7r4A-0001fI-Q4; Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:42:54 +0300 Received: from hades.panopticon (hades.panopticon [192.168.0.32]) by hive.panopticon (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2980837D; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:42:11 +0300 (MSK) Received: by hades.panopticon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 436F21702D; Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:42:36 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:42:36 +0300 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: Wesley Shields Message-ID: <20081203124236.GC70240@hades.panopticon> References: <20081202180743.GB70240@hades.panopticon> <20081202201610.GA8753@atarininja.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081202201610.GA8753@atarininja.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: paul+usenet@w6yx.stanford.edu, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal: mechanism for local patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:42:57 -0000 * Wesley Shields (wxs@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > I like you're idea here, but unfortunately directory names are not > unique. For example there is japanese/xchat and irc/xchat. This means > you'll have to go with the "dual-level" layout. As it was suggested, there's UNIQUENAME, but I'd prefer category/portname then. UNIQUENAME may be unintuitive sometimes. > > Here's the draft patch for this functionality: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/local-patchdir.patch > > Other than the above comment I like the patch and would love to see it > implemented. I think it can provide a benefit in situations where > companies/people are doing things with ports that they do not want to > contribute back. That's always useful, I think I'll improve it and make it committed after the freeze is over. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3@amdmi3.ru ..: jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru http://www.amdmi3.ru