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authorrillig <rillig>2005-12-02 13:52:31 +0000
committerrillig <rillig>2005-12-02 13:52:31 +0000
commit367db966dd83c06f432ff3853a4a5b52e1c0199f (patch)
tree74f7859581011f190d33aa30b7f137c58e406509 /doc/guide
parent3ffe08d66059a6ff3140b0e097be77f04e05f86f (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-367db966dd83c06f432ff3853a4a5b52e1c0199f.tar.gz
Don't encourage users to abuse the patch framework for installing
pkgsrc-specific files into ${WRKSRC}. I've lately seen too many patches against /dev/null that contain RCS Ids.
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diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
index 0eb374fc627..1d859992aa1 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/components.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.17 2005/10/23 11:25:58 rillig Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.18 2005/12/02 13:52:31 rillig Exp $ -->
<chapter id="components"> <?dbhtml filename="components.html"?>
<title>Package components - files, directories and contents</title>
@@ -430,12 +430,9 @@
<sect1 id="files-dir">
<title><filename>files/*</filename></title>
- <para>If you have any files that you wish to be placed in the package prior
- to configuration or building, you could place these files here and use
- a <quote>${CP}</quote> command in the
- <quote>pre-configure</quote> target to achieve
- this. Alternatively, you could simply diff the file against
- <filename>/dev/null</filename> and use the patch mechanism to manage
- the creation of this file.</para>
+ <para>If you have any files that you wish to be placed in the
+ package prior to configuration or building, you should place these
+ files here and use a <quote>${CP}</quote> command in the
+ <quote>pre-configure</quote> target to achieve this.</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>