Date: 17 Sep 2002 16:05:03 -0500 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/41701: New port: devel/RT2 Message-ID: <1032296703.380.8.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <200209172100.g8HL0Irg078458@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200209172100.g8HL0Irg078458@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Is there any hope of this port making the tree for 4.7 (based on the calendar, I suspect not, but...).... LER On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:00, Anton Berezin wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/41701; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> > To: plasma <plasma@freebsd.sinica.edu.tw> > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: ports/41701: New port: devel/RT2 > Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:51:36 +0200 > > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:40:04AM -0700, plasma wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:27:19AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > On Fri 2002-08-16 (11:04), plasma wrote: > > > > RT is a request tracker system written in perl > > > > > > > > WWW: http://bestpractical.com/rt/ > > > > > > Does this work on 4.x? Last I tried, the perl modules installed > > > couldn't be found because they're "shadowed" by the system perl. I > > > notice you're using "/usr/local/bin/perl" in your patch - did you test > > > this on -CURRENT, or use perl 5.8 from ports on 4.x? > > > My testing system is FreeBSD 4.6-release, and it's ok. > > > The port's problem is, it needs Perl 5.6.1 or greater to run. > > Are you sure about that? Last time I installed RT (2.0.8, I believe), > it was surely possible to make it work with 5.005_03 - at least it does > so on our server. Though I am the first to recommend people to upgrade > to 5.6.1, it would be extremely nice if your port were made to work with > the system perl. In the vast majority of cases, it is possible; in > fact, quite a number of existing p5 ports in the tree `convince' their > respective perl modules that running on 5.005_03 is not such a bad idea, > after all. > > When doing that, keep in mind that RELENG_4 after 17th of June 2002 have > @INC order reversed, in order to pick the (newer) modules from ports > before the (older) modules from the system perl. RELENG_4_6, including > 4.6-release, are not good enough for that. > > > It needs CGI.pm-2.80 or greater, which doesn't exist in ports. You > > can search ports/36887, which proposed a CGI-2.80. I have a wild > > guess: the reason why ports/36887 remains open is CGi-2.80 needs perl > > 5.6. > > Your wild guess is wrong. :-) There is no good reason why CGI.pm was > not updated. It is now at 2.86. > > Also, this is not good: > > MD5 (rt.tar.gz) = 59179c054c0e05336f9b92fe3b031270 > > It virtually guarantees you to have the checksum changed from under you. > The tarballs with the actual version numbers can be found at > > http://www.fsck.com/pub/rt/release/ > > I think that this port should be reworked with these comments in mind. > > That said, I found it is extremely nice that we *will* have a port for > RT2. I was planning to make one myself, and I am very glad I do not > have to, now. :-) Thanks! > > Cheers, > =Anton. > -- > | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | > | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | > | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | > | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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