From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 10 01:09:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DED106567A for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155C78FC0C for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 28036 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2009 01:09:24 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Mar 2009 01:09:24 -0000 Message-ID: <49B5BBB2.4080405@telenix.org> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:00:34 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <49B41108.8060105@telenix.org> <20090308210404.3895216d@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090308210404.3895216d@gumby.homeunix.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager modifying bsd.port.mk 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: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:09:25 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:40:08 -0400 > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> Here's the portmanager listing, maybe someone here can tell me what's >> causing portmanager to want to patch my bsd.port.mk, and why the >> patchfile should be so far off, and what might be the CORRECT way to >> fix this. Oh, BTW, I run current, and keep myself that way via cvsup. > > IIRC the patch was made so that when portmanager built a port, the > makefile would call back into portmanager to let it modify the > dependencies. Portmanager had a major rewrite just before the original > author had a row with some FreeBSD people and abandoned the project. > AFAIK the feature wasn't yet used, so it doesn't matter if the patch > doesn't apply since it's a null operation. Ahh, I didn't realize that portmanager was moribund. OK, I can figure out what to do from here, then, thanks. I might not like the method being used by portmanager very much, but it's not worth complaining about a dead port. Too many other choices, aren't there? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm1u6sACgkQz62J6PPcoOlcfQCgnXJkaeu1SOXMhcWxWhlVMQFc 9lcAni5kfl+jmQE1C3b6t0lQkdocH+HL =OTs8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----