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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/19774: XFree86 ports do not set package name; wipe out package database
Message-ID:  <200007080220.TAA83419@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/19774; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/19774: XFree86 ports do not set package name; wipe out package database
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:13:14 -0400

 On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 10:06:20AM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
 > The Makefile in the respective ports does not set the PKGNAME variable.  When
 > the package is installed, it does so with a PKGNAME of "", which nukes the
 > whole /var/pkg/db database.
 
 What are you talking about??
 
 <1 5006-0> (22:14:24) [will@radon /usr/ports/x11]% for i in XFree86
 XFree86-4;do cd $i;make -V PKGNAME;cd ..;done
 XFree86-3.3.6
 XFree86-4.0
 
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