Subject: use of NO_PATCH considered unhelpful To: None <> From:
Andrew Brown <> List: tech-pkg Date: 12/26/2002 14:41:22 i note
that for pkgs that exist only in pkgsrc (ie, there is no other
distribution point, such as pkglint, digest, etc), NO_PATCH is
typically set (well...defined) in the makefile.  of course, if
there *were* to be patches, it would be just as straightforward
for one to fix the actual code than to make a patch.  simpler,
even.  however it makes it rather difficult to apply *local*
patches to these  in the case of pkglint (which i was just
mucking with), adding a do-extract target to the makefile (to do
the copying from the files directory to the work directory) and
unsetting NO_PATCH made everything happy again.  is there any
reason this new idea might not be encouraged?