Subject: Re: How NetBSD manages CVS and 3rd-party sources
To: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/28/1998 08:40:39
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Guenther Grau wrote:
: for some packages there are scripts in the tree which are called
: packetName2netbsd, which supposedly take care of a). They
: have to be edited by hand, though, and thus face the problem
: of being out of date. It would be great if we had a tool
: that automagically created this and sent it back to the maintainer
: of the package.
X2netbsd scripts are evil and should be replaced with a reachover style
build where appropriate and feasible. Pmake allows for very slick build
environments that require no source modification. :)
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