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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 01:07:06 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>
Cc:        tg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] port: python-2.1.2 -> 2.1.3
Message-ID:  <20020411010706.A87330@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020410163151.GA82892@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>; from alane@geeksrus.net on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:31:51PM -0400
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Alan E(alane@geeksrus.net)@2002.04.10 12:31:51 +0000:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:08:18PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> >Alan E(alane@geeksrus.net)@2002.04.10 11:53:04 +0000:
> >> On Wednesday 10 April 2002 10:52, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> >> > in followup to my last mail including the make changes as files, her=
e is
> >> > a patch against the ports tree as of today, 15:40 CEST. it applies f=
rom
> >> > /usr/ports and updates bsd.python.mk, python21 and py-tkinter to the
> >> > 2.1.3 python bugfix version.
> >>=20
> >> FYI I have an open PR (36353) against Python 2.1, and whichever patch =
goes in=20
> >> first will invalidate the other (for Makefile only). It's not a big de=
al (my=20
> >> patch bumps PORTREVISION, you bump PORTVERSION).=20
> >
> >this should be resolved first, then. it is just a "works for me[tm]"
> >fix, since i am neither a make or ports subsystem guru. since zope had
> >severe problems on my freebsd box i needed to fire up py2.1.3 very
> >quick. i don't want to have zope going down 8 times a day on a
> >production system.
>=20
> 0. I don't care which one goes in first, as long as they both go in. IMO
> neither one has any inherent priority. However, yours won't go in as
> long as there isn't a PR for it. Would you like me make one and submit
> it for you?

i will now try and submit one myself. need to figure out how to
configure send-pr on this box first (that it does not emit a bogus mail
address and takes my official one instead)

> 1. I just rechecked, and I didn't even bump PORTREVISION, so there won't =
be
> a patch conflict. I raised a false alarm. Sorry.

ok

> 2. PORTREVISION is the change-counter for the port itself. Has nothing
> to do with the source-package's version.

a-ha ;-)

> 3. My patches don't affect Zope.

yes, but they are good because they seem to do the Right Thing[tm]

> >btw, what about having a post-install telling the user to ln -s his
> >preferred version of python in /usr/local/bin on his own? i think this
> >would make sense, because it's quite dangerous if /usr/local/bin/python
> >gets replaced automagically.
>=20
> The current version of python should own the /usr/local/bin/python
> binary. Zope is the only other package that actually needs python21.
>=20
> I agree regarding the danger; that's why I'm patching the old versions
> of python to not do that.=20

yes, but as i said, it would perhaps make sense to emit a note of
warning from the make file in post-install or elsewhere, much like the
"network daemon potential security hole" warning in some ports.

regards,
/k

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