On 08/21/2011 09:13, Chris Rees wrote:

On 21 Aug 2011 13:00, "Alexey Dokuchaev" <da...@freebsd.org
<mailto:da...@freebsd.org>> wrote:
 >
 > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:52:14AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
 > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:48:38PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
 > > > I'd agree on FILESDIR.
 > > >
 > > > Anyone have a problem with adding a section on
 > > > wiki/PortsLongtermTargets about ports that use PATCHDIR? This
 > > > inconsistency is a little strange.
 > >
 > > Oh, please do.  This inconsistency is not just strange, but rather 
annoying.
 >
 > As for the strange part, it seems like historical left-over from times when
 > ports had "patches" directory (I vaguelly recall the OpenBSD still does it
 > these days).  Since FreeBSD had standardized on "files" long time ago, bpm
 > should stop using PATCHDIR and replace it with FILESDIR).  Ditto for the
 > ports, of course.
 >

PR filed at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159970 thanks for the
motivation ;)

Chris


I will ping marcus and have him add a bit to portlint(1) and maybe check for hardcoding of files/ as well.
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