FYI.
-PW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Satoshi Asami)
Subject: HEADS UP: ports Makefiles being updated soon
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:15:16 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello world,
As we have been discussing on the ports list, we have decided to
introduce a slight syntax change to the port Makefiles regarding
DISTNAME and PKGNAME.
This change will be done this weekend. I will freeze the ports tree
Friday night (U.S. Pacific Time) and a small group of volunteers will
convert the entire tree in one pass. I will then unfreeze the tree
and we can go back to business.
I don't expect anything to break but since we are talking about over
3,000 ports, I can't guarantee that everything will go smooth. If you
haven't cvsupped ports for a while, you may want to do it now.
After the conversion, "old style" ports will no longer be accepted.
Please read the handbook's porting section at, for instance,
http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/porting.html#PORTING-SAMPLEM
for details.
(The above page seems to be still showing the old version -- the
documentation change was committed today, so please check back later.)
Also, make sure that you have the latest ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk if you
are using anything from ports-current. This means, if you are
cvsupping individual ports collections, you need to have "ports-base"
in your cvsupfile.
Thanks,
Satoshi (and the friendly ports team)
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