ports/176442: Port files with double-colons cannot exist on FAT partitions.

linimon at FreeBSD.org linimon at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 26 17:00:12 UTC 2013


Synopsis: Port files with double-colons cannot exist on FAT partitions.

State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
State-Changed-By: linimon
State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 26 16:54:52 UTC 2013
State-Changed-Why: 
This is very unlikely to be fixed.

Although portmgr indeed has requested that people stop committing new
patchfiles with the "::" separators, there remain hundreds of existing
ones.  IMHO it would be very disruptive to the ports tree -- and thus,
most users -- to do a mass rename just to handle this particular FAT
edge case.

I'll mark this PR suspended as a caution to committers considering adding
new patchfiles with that separator.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=176442


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