On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:11:52PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> When a port is repocopied, should the Makefile be altered to reflect the new 
> location?
> 
> For example, securty/kwallet/Makefile contains:
> 
> CATEGORIES=   misc kde
> 
> I've seen this problem before, but I didn't write it in for 
> http://news.freshports.org
> 
> What I did was write a script to detect such situations.  This is how it came 
> to my attention.  The ports in question are:
> 
[snip]

> >  Log:
> >  Forced commit to note repocopies:
> > 

Current best practice is to do a forced commit after the repocopy right
before updating the new port to whatever change its going to have
compared to its master.  This is just so the reopocopy itself is
mentioned in the commitlogs as a workaround for cvs.  You're right that
if the port moves category, its CATEGORIES, and thus ORIGIN, and
possibly other metainformation will be wrong between the forced commit
and the update commit.  It's not ideal and hopefully it will all go away
when me move to subversion.

Erwin

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Erwin Lansing                                    http://droso.dk
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