Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:42:59 +0200 From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> To: asami@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: patches/ handling Message-ID: <20000605184259.A21736@cichlids.cichlids.com>
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Hello!
I have the following request:
Can the patches/ directory handling be changed?
It's defenitely bad to have tons of same patches in patches.{arch} if
only _one_ patch differs.
Can't we just change the behaviour to:
* Suck in patches from a master-patch dir, patches/
* _THEN_ patch with platform specific patches?
That would save much space in the repository, since for many ports
most of the patches are FreeBSD-specific and then, sometimes, that are
arch issues.
We should do that, even since there is effort to port FreeBSD to
Sparc, PPC and IA-64, afaik.
And we should do that NOW, since we have only ONE patches.alpha dir at
the moment.
Alex
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