From 638da308e16852ef187a08581824753220858439 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: peter Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:39:14 +0000 Subject: Remove the documentation for optional patch files, which was removed some time ago. ok wiz@ --- Packages.txt | 27 +-------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'Packages.txt') diff --git a/Packages.txt b/Packages.txt index b43ca36a37e..b09606ee3a8 100644 --- a/Packages.txt +++ b/Packages.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.362 2004/10/16 00:41:40 dan Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.363 2004/11/19 18:39:14 peter Exp $ ########################################################################### ========================== @@ -835,31 +835,6 @@ will compile and run perfectly on NetBSD. The files are applied successively in alphabetic order (as returned by a shell "patches/patch-*" glob expansion), so patch-aa is applied before patch-ab etc. -Patch files which are optional and will depend on local site configuration -can be included with names matching the pattern "patches/patch-optional-*". -Their suffixes should match the configuration options. The selected -optional patch file names should be assigned to the variable -$OPTIONAL_PATCHFILES. They will not be applied by default. - -For example if a package data file needs patching to indicate the default -local printer paper size as specified in the $PAPERSIZE file you can -include patches for all the possible paper sizes other than the one the -package comes configured for by default. In this case you might have a -patch called "patch-optional-Letter-papersize" and/or another patch called -"patch-optional-A4-papersize". In your Makefile you would select between -them with the following construct: - - PATCHDIR= ${.CURDIR}/patches - .if exists(${PATCHDIR}/patch-optional-${PAPERSIZE}-papersize) - OPTIONAL_PATCHFILES+= ${PATCHDIR}/patch-optional-${PAPERSIZE}-papersize - .endif - -Note that you have to define the value of $PATCHDIR in order to use it in a -".if" statement like this as otherwise it's not defined until too late -during the processing of the Makefile. You should use a ".if" statement in -order to avoid problems should the configuration item ($PAPERSIZE in this -example) be set to an unexpected value. - The patch-* files should be in "diff -bu" format, and apply without a fuzz to avoid problems (to force patches to apply with fuzz you can set PATCH_FUZZ_FACTOR=-F2). Furthermore, do not put changes for more than one -- cgit v1.2.3