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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 1997 02:09:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        tg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/bsvc Makefile
Message-ID:  <199703101009.CAA00925@baloon.mimi.com>
In-Reply-To: <12063.857722347@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)

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 * >   ${RM} -> ${RM} -f.
 * 
 * That was reason #1. :-)

Sorry, that was an oversight in my part.

 * My other feeling was that generating a temporary patch actually *in*
 * the patches directory was kind of evil, and if I had to do it I'd
 * simply generate the patch under ${WRKDIR} and add a post-patch target
 * for it rather than a pre-clean target.  Maybe I'm just being
 * anal-retentive, but it would make more sense given the presence of the
 * pre-patch rule. :-)

Actually, I'd do it that way myself too, if I'm the porter.  But the
port came in the other way, and we have several precedences of
allowing temporary patchfiles in the patches/ directory, and I didn't
feel strongly enough to change that.

By the way, my next project (after the release is out, obviously) is
to make the /usr/ports tree "read-only" as far as ports building is
concerned, much the same way /usr/src is.  That would obviouly
disallow things like this from happening again.

Satoshi



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