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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:12:40AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Greg A. Woods wrote:
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> >>>>[...] It is now an error if PKGREVISION appears outside a package
> >>>>Makefile.
>=20
> >That should be a very strong hint to everyone that there's something
> >fundamentally wrong with the idea of forcing all the users of a shared
> >Makefile.common to have their own unique PKGREVISION setting.
> >
> >For example sometimes, maybe even very often, the need to bump the
> >revision is due to a change that's common to (i.e. affects) all those
> >packages which share a Makefile.common and now with this nonsensical
> >rule they _all_ _MUST_ have their PKGREVISION values updated
> >simultaneously, which is more work, more error prone, and all really for
> >no good reason.
>=20
> Are you suggesting that we add another variable for the specific package=
=20
> for a revision?
>=20
> If we have a Makefile.common that defines the source distfile. Then we=20
> have a client package that is updated (using same Makefile.common) such a=
s=20
> installing an extra documentation file, the PKGREVISION bump should be=20
> done just specific for that package.

We could have PKGREVISION line be

PKGREVISION:=3D${PKGREVISION}+++

(for nb3 + whatever was previously defined).

But that's ill in its own way, too :)

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Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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