[csw-pkgsubmissions] Fwd: newpkgs mediawiki

[Philip Brown]

On 11/24/10, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from rupert THURNER's message of Wed Nov 24 13:16:42 -0500 2010:
>
>> what in gar might have changed so upgrading the version number of
>> mediawiki gave such a result?
>
> I just looked.  The install-custom target is doing:
>
> cd $(WORKSRC); pax -rw -v ./ $(abspath
> $(DESTDIR)$(RELOCATE_PREFIX)/mediawiki)
>
> This will also capture the .git directory that is setup to allow for
> `gmake makepatch` stuff.  Tell pax to ignore it or add an extra
> command to remove it from the $(DESTDIR) area afterwards.
>

werent you also going to add some kind of option to allow maintainers
to flag, "I dont want git"?
This would seem to be a good candidate to enable it, if it's in there already.