Attachment 71487 Details for Bug 104126 – distfile_rerolling.diff

[patch] distfile_rerolling.diff

distfile_rerolling.diff (text/plain), 1.12 KB, created by Roman Bogorodskiy on 2006-10-07 19:30:44 UTC

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Created: 2006-10-07 19:30:44 UTC

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>Index: book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.757
>diff -u -r1.757 book.sgml
>--- book.sgml	6 Oct 2006 19:18:17 -0000	1.757
>+++ book.sgml	7 Oct 2006 18:14:17 -0000
>@@ -10222,6 +10222,22 @@
> 	  special need.</para>
>       </sect1>
> 
>+      <sect1 id="dads-distfiles-rerolling">
>+	<title>Distfiles rerolling</title>
>+
>+	<para>It could happen that the distfile of your port gets
>+	  rerolled (i.e. its content was changed without changing the
>+	  name).  It is a bad sign usually and you have to make sure
>+	  that no harmful changes were made.  Save the old distfile,
>+	  download the new one and compare them with &man.diff.1;. If
>+	  you see nothing criminal you can update
>+	  <filename>distinfo</filename>.  Be sure to summarize changes
>+	  so other people knew nothing critial happened.</para>
>+
>+        <para>You might want to contact the developers of the software
>+	 and ask not to reroll distfiles.</para>
>+      </sect1>
>+
>       <sect1 id="dads-workarounds">
> 	<title>Necessary workarounds</title>

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