[87607] trunk/dports/textproc

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Dec 17 21:45:37 PST 2011


On Dec 10, 2011, at 05:47, Hiroshi Umemoto wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Nov 28, 2011, at 08:47, hum at macports.org wrote:
>>> Revision: 87607
>>>        http://trac.macports.org/changeset/87607
> 
>>> -distfiles
>>> +distfiles           {}
>> 
>> In what way were distfiles broken before this change? I've put the line "distfiles" into many portfiles (to prevent them from having any distfiles) but I've never used "distfiles {}". I wouldn't think there would be a difference however.
> 
> Sorry for the my reply. There is totally no difference as you pointed out, but I felt a little inconsistency between distfiles and build, the latter of which requires an empty body {}.

In fact, there was a difference; this made the ports fail:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32579

So, let's not do that anymore. :)





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