Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:47:40 +0200 From: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@rachinsky.de> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports Message-ID: <20040413124740.GC75799@pc5.i.0x5.de> In-Reply-To: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0602040cbca10a7dbe52@[128.113.24.47]>
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* Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> [2004-04-12 23:40 -0400]: > subset of the idea. For instance, we might start out by just > collapsing the distinfo, pkg-plist, and "files/patches-*" files > into a pkg-data file, and leave the other files for some later > project. Right now it's quite easy to throw local patches just into the files directory without getting any problems with cvs (no conflicts). You can even use symlinks (I do), so you won't delete your patches if you forget to store them anywhere else if you recreate your ports tree (after messing it up for example). Nicolas
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