Subject: pkg Makefile comments
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rrzc1.rz.uni-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/16/1998 13:50:58
FYI:
In PR 5771 Tim Rightnour asks about what the current format for the
comments is we keep in pkgs's Makefile headers. Formerly, it used to be
something like (without the leading tabs):
# New ports collection makefile for: lha
# Version required: 1.14C
# Date created: 26 Dec 1994
# Whom: ache
#
# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.2 1997/10/27 03:22:14 hubertf Exp $
# FreeBSD Id: Makefile,v 1.9 1996/12/15 02:05:58 max Exp
#
which we took from FreeBSD. Later on we decided that maintaining that
information was more or less useless work, as all the information is
present elsewhere, and thus we dripped it, resulting in the much shorter
form that's currently in use:
# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.6 1998/06/18 16:06:37 agc Exp $
# FreeBSD Id: Makefile,v 1.9 1996/12/15 02:05:58 max Exp
#
If the pkg doesn't come from FreeBSD, that line 's not present, just as
before. All this is also documented in
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt, see section 4.1.
- Hubert
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