The following reply was made to PR pkg/31937; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
To: epg@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, taca@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/31937: subversion-1.2.3.tar.gz has checksum error
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:24:38 +0900 (JST)

 In message <20051101.105406.07630472.taca@back-street.net>
 	on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:54:06 +0900 (JST),
 	Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net> wrote:
 > In message <30467.1130803518@gould.diplodocus.org>
 > 	on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:05:18 -0800,
 > 	Eric Gillespie <epg@NetBSD.org> wrote:
 > > This just needs 1.14 of rubyversion.mk pulled up.  Unfortunately,
 > > i'm sure that affects many other ruby packages.  I don't know who
 > > should look into this; i think it's better if someone familiar
 > > with the ruby packages does it.
 > Adding empty RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR might help.
 > 
 > RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR=
 Here is real example:
 
 Index: Makefile
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/subversion/Makefile,v
 retrieving revision 1.24
 diff -u -u -r1.24 Makefile
 --- Makefile	23 May 2005 22:58:26 -0000	1.24
 +++ Makefile	4 Nov 2005 09:36:03 -0000
 @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
  NO_BUILD=	YES
  NO_MTREE=	YES
  
 +RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR=	# empty
 +
  .include "../../lang/python/pyversion.mk"
  .include "../../lang/ruby/rubyversion.mk"
  
 > > Why do we need the separate ruby distdir anyway?
 > It was borrow from FreeBSD's ports which was the base of Ruby package
 > framework. AFAIR, its intention was:
 > 
 >   - avoid potential name conflicts; some distfiles begin from "ruby-"
 >     but others don't.
 >   - gather ruby related distfiles to one area.
 > 
 I'm thinking of stop this separate distdir...
 
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 Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>