Subject: Re: README, Package developers!
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/06/2000 15:31:47
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 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...
Is it enabled on the bulk builds - if not, maybe we should test
it there for one pass before enabling it for everyone? :)
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