Subject: Re: distinfo files for multiple architectures
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/08/2001 16:14:06
On Tue, 8 May 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > citrix_ica has a distinfo.i386 and distinfo.sparc, while navigator
> > keeps different architectures in the same distinfo file (and needs
> > more care when rebuilding distinfos)
> >
> > Currently lintpkgsrc will miss the citrix_ica distinfos and
> > incorrectly report the distfiles as unused. (This can obviously
> > be fixed :)
> >
> > Can we standardise on one way to handle this, and which should
> > it be?
>
>
> the killer was the different patches needed.... i'm open to suggestions.
Hmm - are the patches incompatible, or are the scripts to patch
just in a different location?
If the latter, have a pre-patch phase the creates a symlink to
the file to patch...
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