From: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@natasha.brandonu.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports
In-Reply-To: <199710151308.HAA03190@mroe.cs.colorado.edu>
Message-ID: <14196.876929326@natasha.brandonu.ca>
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On Wednesday, October 15, uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
>
> Another way were patching the third party program's Makefile accordingly.
> We should introduce a patches-${OPSYS} directory having precedence before
> the patches directory of a port. Thus we could maintain our special patches
> for ports which need them while continuing to use the FreeBSD ports where
> they work out of the box. I see now that this is already implemented in
> <bsd.port.mk>, so we could just USE that.

I've already made a similar message to the ports list.  It was shot down.
But maybe now that we see the "trouble" with the current setup, we can
re-evaluate that.  Personally, I think we could share 95% of the ports
stuff between open/freebsd, but it would be nice to have the ability to
fix things in a local cvs tree, without having to wait for the fix to go
through channels.


--Toby.
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