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Re: [HEADS UP] PKGTOOLS_REQD bump and related changes



On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:46:43PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hello all,
> before the freeze I have commmitted the following large scale changes.
> This can result in some fallout, so be warned:
> 
> (1) License infrastructure
> 
> The license check is now using pkg_admin and allows boolean expressions.
> E.g. LICENSE= artistic OR gnu-gpl-v2.  If you get complains about
> PKGSRC_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES, check your mk.conf.  Valid license names are
> lower case only.

Yeah, it might be a good idea to accept upper and lower case, and fold
the case to lower on input (so that the hashing still works).
 
> (2) @dirrm
> 
> pkg_delete is performing automatic pruning of directories now. Empty
> directories in packages can be requested by @pkgdir in the PLIST and
> will be considered. As some packages had quite a bit of magic related
> to @dirrm entries, there might be some fallout. I am running a bulk
> build now to identify those issues.

Is the @dirrm directive not recognised any more, or is there an error or
warning message attached?
 
Regards,
Alistair


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