Subject: Re: README, Package developers!
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/17/2000 00:30:12
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > PKG_DEVELOPER=yes
> >
> > to their /etc/mk.conf file to enable these extra checks. Thanks!
>
> If all patches in the tree now have zero fuzz, would it make
> sense to enable the -F0 by default? When upgrading a package
> developers would need to run 'make patch PATCH_FUZZ_FACTOR='
> in order to get fuzzy patches to apply, but that is just an
> extra reminder that they need to be regenerated :)
Please note that PKG_DEVELOPER triggers something else besides the
fuzzy-patch-bombout. Beyond that, I don't really care - others might.
The worst thing that could happen is that users would see some broken
packages all of a sudden...
- Hubert
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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>