On 1 April 2012 06:02, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-...@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> Good day!
>
> What is a preferred way of doing subj?
>
> 1. Add an extra-patch-* to files/ subdirectory and apply it depending
> of checks in Makefile (.if ${OSVERSION}).
> 2. Add an patch-* to files subdirectory that applies unconditionally
> and that checking for __FreeBSD_version in app code itself.
>
> The second one will guarantee that the patch still applies cleanly on port
> versions update, but it will make it more hard to find conditional checks
> for obsoleted FreeBSD versions (because most people, I believe, only looking
> to Makefile for things like this).
#1 for exactly the reason you specify: it makes it easier to figure
out why something is being patched and when that patch is no longer
required.
--
Eitan Adler
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