Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:14:37 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tiny patch to pkg_add Message-ID: <20010907191437.A5216@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010907162242.A16949@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:22:43PM -0700 References: <20010907150416.A38565@dub.net> <20010907162242.A16949@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:22:43PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > This was introduced in rev 1.38: > > and replace a big if..then..else construct > to determine the package download directory with a lookup table. > > I am very tempted to back this part out. This "better implimentation" > has now had two logic bugs. I wrote that "big if..then..else contstruct" > so that the code would be *so* simple my simple my 1st quarter freshman > students (back when I TA'ed) could understand it. I did it that way > because I got tired of committers constantly breaking -r. the funniest thing about this is that multiple packages in -r was already fixed once by chris piazza in rev 1.29 (almost 2 years ago). -- - bill fumerola / fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org / billf@mu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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