Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 02:06:03 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: perl@freebsd.org Subject: (FWD) [PATCH] disable perl 5.8's spamming of /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <20040829090603.GA38690@dragon.nuxi.com>
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tobez doesn't seem to be reading FreeBSD mail.
Can anyone here comment on this?
also adding
4. /etc/make.conf isn't cleaned out of turds on 'pkg_delete perl-5.8.5'
----- Forwarded message from David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> -----
Subject: [PATCH] disable perl 5.8's spamming of /etc/make.conf
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:16:26 -0700
To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
Hi Anton,
I'd like to commit this patch:
Index: pkg-install
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-install,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -u -0 -r1.13 pkg-install
--- pkg-install 30 Jul 2004 08:31:19 -0000 1.13
+++ pkg-install 17 Aug 2004 21:59:40 -0000
@@ -24 +24 @@
-if [ $osreldate -ge 502100 ] ; then
+if [ $osreldate -lt 500036 ] ; then
The purpose is to stop perl5.8 from editing /etc/make.conf in 5-STABLE
and 6-CURRENT. I just don't see a need for 'use.perl port' anymore.
1. 'use.perl port' does a poor job of editing /etc/make.conf -- old
variable settings aren't removed.
2. When cleaning up the result of 10 invocations of 'use.perl port'
over time, I inevitably miss one. And it of course is always not
the current version. This causes me to hose my perl5.8 installation
the next time I build a port that depends on perl.
3. I know some people using FreeBSD in appliances that have been very
puzzled that their perl related changes in ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk would
not take affect -- because they were unknowingly being overridden by
'use.perl port's /etc/make.conf values.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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