cvs commit: ports/misc Makefile ports/misc/instant-tinderbox Makefile pkg-descr

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Nov 28 08:02:11 GMT 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:56:04PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:11:37AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > I think this port is a bad idea.  It'll take a fairly long time to
> > build on pointyhat from all the pkg_adds (and it will be right at the
> > end of the package builds since it depends on everything else, so the
> > whole build will end up waiting for it), and it's not useful for
> > anyone apart from users of marcus' tinderbox scripts.  Therefore it
> > should be reimplemented there instead.
> 
> If I add a .ifdef to it which prevents it from being attempted to
> build on non-tinderbox systems, is that a good solution? Or does
> the packaging system ignore IGNOREs?

No, it respects IGNORE..but I still don't see why it should be a port
instead of a small shell script included with the tinderbox.

Kris
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