From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 11 07:41:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA19873 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA19830 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:41:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA02743; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:41:17 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610111441.HAA02743@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: nntp diffs To: ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 07:41:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610110910.NAA00415@nagual.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 11, 96 01:10:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Please, submit context diffs next time. Yeah, sorry... I just grabbed the diff file I had laying around to verify all the changes were in place <:-( If need be, I'll reroll the diffs... > > 372c372 > > < # define SUFFIX ".th" > > --- > > > # define SUFFIX "/.thread" > > This one looks suspicious. Is it file name suffix or what? Yes. A hack to allow specification of a unique THREAD_DIR (so thread info can be maintained outside /var/news/name/of/group) yet allow the THREAD_DIR to be symlinked onto the normal news hierarchy (e.g. symlinked to /var/news) and look like it was *always* that way... --don