On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:49:47AM +0000, David Chisnall wrote: > On 25 Feb 2014, at 07:52, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:22:22PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> On 2014-Feb-22 13:14:38 +0100, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 07:23:50PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >>>> I'd also query the reason for including Debian-specific code in the > >>>> FreeBSD base. > >> > >>> Where have you seen debian specific code? > >> > >> /usr/src/contrib/dma/debian - as far as I can tell, this directory is > >> Debion specific. I thought we stripped out irrelevant code from third > >> party imports but looking wider, there is similarly irrelevant code in > >> a variety of other contrib imports. I'll withdraw that objection. > >> > >> -- > >> Peter Jeremy > > > > Have you already looked at how contrib works? who cares FYI you can also > > find > > some win32 specific code in there, debian packaging code, rpm spec files > > etc. > > For the libc++ imports, we strip out the support directory, which contains > Solaris and Win32-specific stuff. If we end up with a support/freebsd, then > we'll bring that in, but not support/solaris and support/win32. That stuff > is in the vendor branch, but it just seems polite not to make people who > check out head get files that are never used when building FreeBSD in any > configuration. > > David
Last time I asked about those (iirc when importing byacc) I have been told that as long as they are not huge (aka take long to checkout) we do not care about them anymore and that simplifies mergeing from vendor. regards, Bapt
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