.if ARCH / BROKEN, or 'NOT_FOR_ARCH'?

Michael Scheidell scheidell at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 10 09:33:03 UTC 2012



On 4/10/12 5:16 AM, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> maintainer that something is wrong.
>
> There are quite a few large grey areas between those, but that's the
> general outline.
so, if the maintainer knows something, and knows it won't ever get 
fixed, then 'NOT_FOR_ARCHS' is best,
if its an unknown/ maybe osversion, something the maintainer didn't know 
about, portmgr might mark it broken wrapped in a .if ${ARCH}.


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