svn commit: r304840 - in head/x11: nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-173 nvidia-driver-71 nvidia-driver-96

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 25 15:46:53 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:32:06PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> I don't know if a special comment is needed; this is pretty standard slave
> behaviour.

I'd rather keep it, as nvidia-driver is pretty complicated port(s), and I
want it (them) to be documented thoroughly.  Almost all patches people send
to me miss one or two little things like that.  :-(

> However, it is a common problem, perhaps we could put a note into the
> Porter's Handbook in PORTREVISION or master/slave sections?
> 
> "It is usually incorrect to set PORTREVISION to 0, except in a slave port
> where it should override the master port"

I would change the last part to "where it should override the one set in
the master port".

./danfe



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