From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 14:30:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2181065672 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0892D8FC08 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9EEUCB0079975 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:12 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9EEUCsp079962; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:12 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:12 GMT Message-Id: <200910141430.n9EEUCsp079962@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: David Landgren Cc: Subject: Re: ports/139599: sysutils/p5-BSD-Sysctl can not handle QUAD integer. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Landgren List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:30:13 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/139599; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Landgren To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/139599: sysutils/p5-BSD-Sysctl can not handle QUAD integer. Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:30:56 +0200 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > Maintainer of sysutils/p5-BSD-Sysctl, > > Please note that PR ports/139599 has just been submitted. > > If it contains a patch for an upgrade, an enhancement or a bug fix > you agree on, reply to this email stating that you approve the patch > and a committer will take care of it. > > The full text of the PR can be found at: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/139599 Dear Edwin, I do not approve of this patch. Executive summary: the port should be updated to 0.10, which renders this patch superfluous. The desired functionality is present in the 0.10 release available on CPAN (of which I am the author), and it also handles unsigned quads, something this patch doesn't do. Furthermore, a patch was sent to me to handle large sysctl return values (e.g. some of the oids that return large XML documents), which was why 0.09 was released. Subsequent testing by me revealed that said patch caused core dumps on 6.x. This was corrected in 0.10. Regards, David Landgren