Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:06:55 +0200 From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opinions sought on location of bsd.octave.mk Message-ID: <4E10D9EF.5020806@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4E10BB64.9010904@missouri.edu> References: <4E10BB64.9010904@missouri.edu>
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On 2011-07-03 20:56, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > I am the maintainer of the octave-forge ports. These all use a file called > bsd.octave.mk. > > Currently this is located in Mk. But I have noticed that many ports have their > bsd.*.mk files in one of their ports. For example, bsd.mesalib.mk is in > graphics/libGL. > > What is accepted opinion on this? Should I move bsd.octave.mk to > math/octave-forge-base? I am also thinking of renaming it bsd.octave-forge.mk, > > If you think it should be moved, please tell me how strong your view is. I am > told that it requires quite a bit of effort to perform this change, because CVS > has to track all these changes. > If i look at the history of bsd.octave.mk then I see only small changes over a long timeframe, so I think Mk is a good central place. But I can also think of a location in math/octave-forge and doing all other ports via a MASTER/SLAVE part since bsd.octave.mk contains only a view dependencies and other instructions. In Master/Slave you could simply maybe most of the other ports. And yes, a move should be done via repocopy -- olli
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