Subject: Re: pkg/4793: the tiff package contains a patch for the Makefile
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 04/21/1998 11:25:24
Ahh, Ok - thanks.  I guess the old ones didn't get erased for some reason
(I think I unpacked a pkgsrc.tar.gz a while ago, and only recently
starting supping it - so that would do it).

Thanks,
	Rick

On 21 Apr 1998, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.980420215648.219A-100000@rn-re122a05>,
> 	Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca> writes:
> > I am having this exact problem with the tiff package.
> 
> I suppose your package sources are broken. How many files are in your copy
> of "pkgsrc/graphics/tiff/patches"? It shouldn't be more than three.
> 
> > ... but I just don't understand why this one was considered "filed in
> > error".
> 
> Because the there is no patch for "Makefile":
> 
> tron@lyssa:/usr/pkgsrc/graphics/tiff>grep ^+++ patches/patch-*
> patches/patch-aa:+++ man/Makefile.in    Fri Nov 28 02:19:36 1997
> patches/patch-ab:+++ configure  Sat Nov 29 22:50:24 1997
> patches/patch-ac:+++ libtiff/Makefile.in        Mon Dec  1 00:20:35 1997
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/
> 

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