cvsup-mirror rewrite

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Dec 11 12:30:49 PST 2004


On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 01:35:53PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:27:38PM -0200, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Well, I won't be deeply convinced that using ${PREFIX}/${PORTNAME} as
> installation target it the cleanest thing to do while the core team
> won't direct us to do so.  In fact, I think your arguments are not so
> bad and I'm going to adopt your point of view for a first try in the
> code rewrite (anyway changing installation location is not so hard),
> even if it's totally breaking hier(7) IMHO.
> 
> But for now, I'm quite harassed that both hierarchies are used in the
> same time ; I think this is going to be a mess if port maintainers
> are able either to spread the port files accross the standard hierarchy
> (hier(7)) or to simply put them all in ${PREFIX}/${PORTNAME} depending
> on their own policy without further control.

See section 17.10 of the porter's handbook.

Kris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/attachments/20041211/49cd339f/attachment.bin


More information about the freebsd-hubs mailing list