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Date:      Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:59:54 +0200
From:      Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ports registering services in /etc/services and services_mkdb
Message-ID:  <4FD0C1EA.6040209@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FD0BED3.9090009@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4FD0BC9E.1090504@FreeBSD.org> <4FD0BED3.9090009@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2012-06-07 16:46, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 07:37 AM, Olli Hauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> during an update to 8.3 I notice mergemaster from 8.3 is
>> building a database from /etc/services with services_mkdb.
>>
>> However the ports framework does not provide an automation
>> to rebuild this database, even I haven't seen any port which
>> triggers a rebuild.
> 
> Ports should not be adding entries to /etc/services.
> 
> Doug
> 

I don't think it is practical to patch all the ports like
like bacula , spamd and others to not use getservbyname
and hardcode the required ports?




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