Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:45:47 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/xpm/patches patch-aa Message-ID: <199708280745.AAA01584@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199708280730.RAA04182@word.smith.net.au> (message from Mike Smith on Thu, 28 Aug 1997 17:00:40 %2B0930)
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* Ah, so I have to FTP dozens of megabytes of X to get xpm to install. * Definitely superior. You should read the commit logs before making changes like this. I recompile the entire ports tree every two weeks or so; don't assume something as basic as this will stay broken for long. You can drop me a note first if you are not sure. * Tell me, does the patch _hurt_ on an XF86-3.3 system? The lack of it Yes. * is *fatal* on anything earlier. How about a constructive suggestion * for telling the difference between the two? I suggested you look at the commit logs. If you did just that, you would have noticed that what you added is exactly what I deleted in the previous revision because it didn't work anymore. * This is particularly biting as xpm is not shipped as a package; your * insistence makes it effectively impossible to retrofit xpm to anything * other than a bleeding-edge -stable system. It's not only xpm. I fixed probably a dozen ports since XFree86-3.3 came out. That is the official release now, and we follow it. (It has nothing to do with whether your -stable is bleeding edge.) I don't mind you using a local patch (try "patch-zz", I have a bunch of those at home) if you don't want to keep up with the latest XFree86 release. But I strongly object you breaking our package builds. Satoshi
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