Subject: Re: use of IGNORE= for packages also incorporated into the system....
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/23/1999 20:46:06
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

: > : If something's pulled into NetBSD-current then it should simply be removed
: > : from the default top-level build in pkgsrc-current -- there's no need to
: > : hack the pkg to try and do special-case detection of base-OS functionality.
: > 
: > That breaks bulk builds for point releases.  i.e. if we still do a 1.3.4
: > in addition to 1.4 (which looks possible), the pkg build for 1.3.4 wouldn't
: > include it.

: .if exists(/usr/bin/top)
: IGNORE=	laady daady daa
: .endif

This is what we do.  Greg is arguing against it - `don't ask me why'.

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