[HEADSUP] the ports gains self sanity checking

Eitan Adler eadler at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 19 03:48:41 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi all,

Don't forget to send this to ports-announce.

> A new bsd.sanity.mk file has been added to the ports tree.
> This file is there to contain all the sanity check code for the ports tree
> As well as user configuration warning.
>
> Every one will receive warnings as soon as the configuration in make.conf are
> deprecated.
>
> If you are a port maintainer you might be interested in adding DEVELOPER=yes
> into your make.conf, this will advertise you about the use of deprecated
> features, as well as the use of unsupported features.

This is really good work.  Thanks!


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Eitan Adler
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