More nitpicks from the department of redundancy department...

Jason Helfman jhelfman at e-e.com
Tue Nov 22 17:30:03 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:49:24AM -0500, Wesley Shields thus spake:
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:44:47PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 22/11/2011 13:29, Wesley Shields wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:42:59AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> >>> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Matthew Seaman
>> >>> <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> PORT_DBDIR?= /var/db/ports is the default setting in bsd.ports.mk -- the
>> >>>> following ports redefine it to exactly the same value:
>> >>>> [ snip ]
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for the report - I'll handle these.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for the empty promise. Something came up and I won't have the
>> >> time to look at these :( - maybe someone else can take them up
>> >
>> > Hi Matthew!
>> >
>> > If you could please file these in a PR and CC me I will try and work
>> > through all of these.
>>
>> Done: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=162754
>
>Thank you! I will try and clean all this up, but as I'm sure you're
>aware we are coming up on a holiday in the states so my time is limited
>for the next few days. I will look at this as time permits though!
>
>-- WXS

I did have a brief look at some of these and it was a great catch. One item
I did find interesting is a number of these define LATEST_LINK, but it just
matches ${PORTNAME}, so the LATEST_LINK can more than likely be dropped -- on
a case-by-case basis, of course.

-jgh

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