On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:59:38 +0300 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <[email protected]> mentioned:
> Unfortunately we don't seem to have any other way to go, for the > big majority of the ports. The fix is basically identical, so it > doesn't make sense to have a zillion of patch files in a zillion of > ports. > What, on the other hand, makes sense is to have the fix that should > include: > a) a KNOB (WITH_FBSD10_FIX or similar), > b) that only is run from bsd.port.mk when OSVERSION>1000000 > c) runs the latest version of the above patch. > The KNOB's existence allow us to turn on the fix only for broken ports, > and easily know what these broken ports are -- so we can poke > maintainers from time to time about upstream fixes, ... > Sounds good to me. > > Presumably $UPSTREAM wants it software to be able to build on FreeBSD > even outside the PT, especially if this doesn't imply much work on his > part. > You'd be surprized how many of them do not care about FreeBSD altogether. Even if you send them patches. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
