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Date:      Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:14:23 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: portmanager modifying bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <1236647663.1730.10.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <49B5BBB2.4080405@telenix.org>
References:  <49B41108.8060105@telenix.org> <20090308210404.3895216d@gumby.homeunix.com> <49B5BBB2.4080405@telenix.org>

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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:00 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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> RW wrote:
> > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:40:08 -0400
> > Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> > 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.
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> Ahh, I didn't realize that portmanager was moribund.  OK, I can figure ou=
t 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?

It's not exactly dead... I keep it running, because it is still the best
available option.

robert.

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