Re: pkg/31937: subversion-1.2.3.tar.gz has checksum error

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>]

In message <30467.1130803518%gould.diplodocus.org@localhost>
        on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:05:18 -0800,
        Eric Gillespie <epg%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> This just needs 1.14 of rubyversion.mk pulled up.  Unfortunately,
> i'm sure that affects many other ruby packages.  I don't know who
> should look into this; i think it's better if someone familiar
> with the ruby packages does it.
Adding empty RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR might help.

RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR=

> If no one else does, i can try to find some time Saturday to
> build all Q3 ruby packages with this change merged in to see what
> happens.
I may take time to reflect recent Ruby's distfiles change to Q3 branch.

> Why do we need the separate ruby distdir anyway?
It was borrow from FreeBSD's ports which was the base of Ruby package
framework. AFAIR, its intention was:

  - avoid potential name conflicts; some distfiles begin from "ruby-"
    but others don't.
  - gather ruby related distfiles to one area.

Best regards.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca%NetBSD.org@localhost>/<taca%back-street.net@localhost>