Re: observations about wip/heirloom-sh

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

> On the other hand I do not think PREFIX/heirloom/var/* is a good idea.
> PREFIX may be mounted read-only over NFS which would not allow writing
> to PREFIX/heirloom/var. Better to use VARBASE/* or VARBASE/heirloom/*.
I agree.

> Another point I noticed was patch-aa for heirloom-sh (and some other
> patches in the set). When creating packages it is best practice,
> IMO, to not only think: "How do I get it to build and run?" but also
> "would the patches be acceptable by the upstream author(s)?"
They applied some patches I sent earlier.
I'll send the rest a bit later.

> In the case of wip/heirloom-sh ignoring the original variable for
> building packages (they call it ROOT instead of the usual DESTDIR)
> and simply patching makefile with the values pkgsrc needs is probably
> not the way to go.
> I would propose to do it like this:
I'll look to this later.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.

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