Subject: Re: README, Package developers!
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/16/2000 20:44:22
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> I've just committed code to bsd.pkg.mk to run some extra sanity checks
> that pkglint can hardly find:
>
> * make sure patches apply with zero fuzz
> * run check-shlibs to see that all binaries will find their libs
>
> Everyone developing packages, please add
>
> PKG_DEVELOPER=yes
>
> to their /etc/mk.conf file to enable these extra checks. Thanks!
If all patches in the tree now have zero fuzz, would it make
sense to enable the -F0 by default? When upgrading a package
developers would need to run 'make patch PATCH_FUZZ_FACTOR='
in order to get fuzzy patches to apply, but that is just an
extra reminder that they need to be regenerated :)
David/absolute
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