On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 04:54:49PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote:
> One pain point with the cargo module is 'make update-patches'. The
> problem is that crates.io normalizes the Cargo.toml files to maximize
> compatibility with all versions of Cargo and to use crates.io paths for
> dependencies. All DISTFILES in ${DISTFILES}/cargo contain both a
> Cargo.toml and Cargo.toml.orig, which cripples 'make update-patches'
> unless PATCHORIG is set. For this reason, about a third of the Rust
> ports set the PATCHORIG variable (all of them unconditionally).
>
> I suggest that we add a PATCHORIG ?= line to cargo.port.mk. This way,
> the user setting in /etc/mk.conf is respected and not overridden by the
> port Makefiles. The majority set PATCHORIG = .openbsd.orig, so I chose
> that as a default. The diff below also removes all PATCHORIG lines from
> the cargo ports.
I almost sure this came up before so I'm surprised ports still handle it
on their own.
OK kn
