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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 12:28:16PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:20:50AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > could you please name this INDEX-4, or make a symlink?
> > That would not be consistent with the name of the file in CVS.
>=20
> I don't see why that matters.  It is a lot easier to fetch INDEX-$ver
> than to have to wonder precisely what special case applies to each
> particular machine

make -f /usr/ports/Makefile -V INDEXFILE

> and it costs you nothing to create the symlink.

The cost for me to create the symlink is infinite since I cannot do it :)

Kris

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