Re: [emulators/qemu] Deleted patch is still in distinfo

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost> writes:

> I'd prefer to not encode relative paths in metadata, I just think it's
> far too loose, and really don't like the 'cd' requirement because it
> might not always be suitable (e.g. if a tool such as lintpkgsrc wants
> to operate on multiple packages simultaneously for any reason).

I can see that, but then what about using ${PKGSRC}/ always and skip the
.., for all includes of other stuff.  .CURDIR is not really clean, clear
and obviously robust.

> I do think it'd be useful though for bsd.pkg.mk to normalise the paths
> so that you could write "../../foo/bar" in Makefile and the correct
> absolute path is returned.  I think this would be reasonably
> straight-forward, and have the added benefit of cleaning up some paths
> being /pkgsrc/cat/pkg and some being /pkgsrc/../../cat/pkg

It's reasonable to separate what humans write and what tools perceive.
I at least find having to add in some curdir thing to some relative
paths but not others to be a sign of trouble.