Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 01:01:49 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: hoek@hwcn.org Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/print/c2ps Makefile Message-ID: <199803010901.BAA02340@bubble.didi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980228170200.8963C-100000@james.hwcn.org> (message from Tim Vanderhoek on Sat, 28 Feb 1998 19:53:21 -0500 (EST))
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* If we add ports such as a2ps-letter, etc. being wholly
* self-sufficient (ie. don't call `a2ps') then most of these
* problems solve themselves. Cookies aren't needed since
* a2ps-letter can only do -letter. INDEX isn't a problem.
* Packages are built properly. If we lose the single "a2ps" port,
* then the whole PAPERSIZE question becomes unnecessary.
:
(pretty good summary deleted)
I think I give up on the "DTRT with PAPERSIZE if the user types `make'
in ports/print" idea. People doing that can easily use DUDS or some
other method. It's getting too confusing.
On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of having every single
port be self-sufficient. We've already got too many "oops" commits,
and things like having someone update one pkg/PLIST but not its
counterpart is extremely hard to check.
We should accept the fact that downloading a single port has a very
good chance of breaking (think *_DEPENDS) and recommend users keep up
with the whole ports tree.
I can add something like this to bsd.port.mk to help unconfuse the users:
===
.if defined(INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_FROM)
.if !exists(${INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_FROM}/Makefile)
IGNORE= "This port requires another port (${INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_FROM}). Please get that one too"
.else
.include (${INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_FROM})
.if ${REQUIRED_MAKEFILE_VERSION} != ${MAKEFILE_VERSION}
IGNORE= "Version of ${INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_FROM} disagrees with required version. Please get an updated version first"
.endif
.endif
.endif
===
Then we have something like:
a2ps-letter/Makefile:
===
REQUIRED_MAKEFILE_VERSION= 1.3
INCLUDE_MAKEFILE_FROM= ../a2ps-a4
.include <bsd.port.mk>
===
a2ps-a4/Makefile:
===
MAKEFILE_VERSION= 1.3
===
Satoshi
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