cvs commit: ports/www/chromium Makefile

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 21 13:13:56 UTC 2011


On 21 Aug 2011 13:00, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:52:14AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:48:38PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> > > I'd agree on FILESDIR.
> > >
> > > Anyone have a problem with adding a section on
> > > wiki/PortsLongtermTargets about ports that use PATCHDIR? This
> > > inconsistency is a little strange.
> >
> > Oh, please do.  This inconsistency is not just strange, but rather
annoying.
>
> As for the strange part, it seems like historical left-over from times
when
> ports had "patches" directory (I vaguelly recall the OpenBSD still does it
> these days).  Since FreeBSD had standardized on "files" long time ago, bpm
> should stop using PATCHDIR and replace it with FILESDIR).  Ditto for the
> ports, of course.
>

PR filed at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159970 thanks for the
motivation ;)

Chris


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