Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:29:58 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: amanda port, empty PATCH_STRIP= lines causes trouble Message-ID: <19980117152958.42977@follo.net> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3CPine=2EBSF=2E3=2E96=2E980117163612=2E5724A-100000=40ls?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?d=2Erelcom=2Eeu=2Enet=3E=3B_from_=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7_on_Sat=2C_Jan_17=2C_1998_at_04=3A39=3A43P?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?M_%2B0300?= References: <86d8hr5ioz.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117163612.5724A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 04:39:43PM +0300, Андрей Чернов wrote: > On 17 Jan 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > Because this break support for older 2.2 machines, for one. Besides, > > "just making it work" without understanding the ramifications are a > > very bad idea for important utilities (like the ports collection). > > I talk about not yet released -stable, not about older 2.2 installations > which have their own patch / bsd.port.mk No. They don't have their own bsd.port.mk - we've been telling them to upgrade to the newest bsd.port.mk all the time. IMHO, we should as far as possible in making the active ports collection work on all versions of 2.2 (or at least provide a painless way of making it work). Investigating what will be broken and what will need to change with a merge before doing it is only prudent, if you accept this. > All ramifications and differences clearly described in patch(1), so I see > no needs to additionly "understand" them besides reading the manual. All ramifications can't be described there - I can't imagine them having a description of how this impacts our ports collection in the man page ;-) Eivind.
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