HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:34:42 +0400):

> Hello List,
>
>
> I've just committed new Linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports. That was
> a long awaited commit. Thanks for all who helped me here. 47 new
> ports are introduced as well as a new linux ports infrastructure
> which made it possible to co-exist ports from different linux
> distros at our ports tree. The worked lasted for more than a year.

Yeah!

> The above mentioned infrasrtucture allows using different linux
> base ports and non-base infrastructure ports. Users should define
> at their /etc/make.conf two variables: OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT
> and OVERRIDE_LINUX_NON_BASE_PORTS. The valid value for the latter
> is "f8".

Why do we distinguish between BASE_PORT and NON_BASE_PORTS?

Bye,
Alexander.

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