From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 13 09:55:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE8616A4CF for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.server.rpi.edu (smtp0.server.rpi.edu [128.113.53.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A8343D39 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp0.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3DGtCEd027245; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:55:13 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040413124740.GC75799@pc5.i.0x5.de> References: <20040413124740.GC75799@pc5.i.0x5.de> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:55:11 -0400 To: Nicolas Rachinsky From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:55:14 -0000 At 2:47 PM +0200 4/13/04, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: >* Garance A Drosihn [2004-04-12 23:40 -0400]: >> subset of the idea. For instance, we might start out by just >> collapsing the distinfo, pkg-plist, and "files/patches-*" files >> into a pkg-data file, and leave the other files for some later >> project. > >Right now it's quite easy to throw local patches just into the >files directory without getting any problems with cvs (no >conflicts). You can even use symlinks (I do), so you won't >delete your patches if you forget to store them anywhere else >if you recreate your ports tree (after messing it up for example). This is true. I will make sure that we would continue to support that ability. I think it would be better to make it more explicit that those files are "local patches". For instance, we could pick up any files that are found in portname/localfiles/patches-* I have not thought about that too much yet, but I can see it is something that the pkg-data project would need to support. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu