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Re: minor glitch in bsd.port.mk(5) ?



* M. Schatzl [2005-11-15]:
> COMES_WITH  The first release where the port was made part of the stan-
>             dard distribution.  If the current OpenBSD version is >=
>             this version then a notice will be displayed instead of the
>             port being built.
> 
> 
> Sorry if I get this wrong: But it doesn't make sense to me to reject a
> port that came first with a version of OpenBSD lower than the current one.
> 
> Shouldn't it be "If the current OpenBSD version is < this version then a
> notice will be displayed instead of the port being built." ?

COMES_WITH means the port got integrated into that version of OpenBSD.
Assume there's a port foo for OpenBSD 3.4, then becomes part of OpenBSD 3.5,
so it doesn't make sense to build that port on OpenBSD 3.5, 3.6, ...

Nikolay



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