cvs commit: ports/dns/powerdns Makefile

Kirill Ponomarew krion at voodoo.oberon.net
Tue Feb 1 03:19:00 PST 2005


On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:09:26AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > That's right, since it doesn't have any special characters, but when
> > it does, then BROKEN needs to be quoted, and IGNORE needs to be not
> > quoted, because it is already quoted by bsd.port.mk.
> 
> Add this to the handbook somewhere - it's totally counter-intuitive, but
> at least having it documented may just save you having to remind people
> all the time ;-)

I would just write that BROKEN strings should be always quoted and
IGNORE strings should not.  Writing about special characters can
confuse people, since not everyone knows what they are :)

Could you add it to porters handbook ?

-Kirill


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