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Date:      Wed, 07 Oct 1998 17:20:26 -0500
From:      Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's the right way to handle old bsd.port.mk? 
Message-ID:  <E0zR1wY-0006GF-00@spawn.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810072128.OAA11079@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> 
References:  <199810072128.OAA11079@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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Point me to the documentation in question and I'd be glad to
add a paragraph or two about keeping up with ports if it appears
to be needed.

Hmm, now I get why NetBSD has their makefiles as part of the
collection rather than part of the base system.

Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org

On 7 October 1998 at 14:28, asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) wrote:
>  * What should a port that needs to know PORTOBJFORMAT do on a system
>  * with an older bsd.port.mk?
> 
> Nothing.  Ports shipped with releases go out with matching
> bsd.port.mk's; people using ports-current are expected to get the
> latest bsd.port.mk.
> 
> The latter part is becoming more of a problem lately; maybe if you can 
> go look into documentation to make it clearer, it will be a much
> better use of your time IMO. :)
> 
> Satoshi
> 



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