Re: git: 4ab6c1871671 - main - */*: Remove GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX

Ok, I understand it as I misunderstood 2024Q2 was including manprefix
update.

But taking your commit as an example, since manprefix fix was removed from
all your ports what happens if you need a cherry-pick to quarterly in the
future?

Thanks

Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@freebsd.org> escreveu (domingo, 28/04/2024 à(s)
13:50):

> Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Hello Emanuel,
> >
> > I did the same for my ports and I'm doing it when it applies to ports
> > from PRs updates.
> > Today I found a problem when I tried to cherry-pick a port without
> > GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX fix as it appears that 2024Q2 doesn't have
> > 9fd7ee1cdf6c applied.
> >
> > I've checked Mk/bsd.port.mk and it remains pointed to man and not
> > share/man.
> >
> > Am I missing something? I was thinking that 2024Q2 was delayd because
> > of this...
> >
> > Here is a case where I did remove manprefix fix and tried to
> > cherry-pick to quarterly.
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=278589
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> That's the problem with sweeping commits: eventually, you make it
> impossible to use cherry-pick because that would end up including the
> entire commit, along with all other Makefiles it touched. In the past,
> I've simply committed the change manually in the quarterly branch (git
> commit, git push).
>
> Since 2024Q2 was branched before the GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX change,
> you'll need to keep the band-aid in the quarterly branch for this cycle.
>


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