From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 6 15: 8:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C13B137B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:08:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8D143E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:08:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECB066B5E for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:08:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3EF49F89; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:10:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:10:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: PORTCOMMENT problems Message-ID: <20021106231013.GA17696@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It looks like there are some bugs in the use of PORTCOMMENT in bsd.port.mk (probably lack of appropriate quoting), which is causing problems with special characters in comment strings (+, ', etc). There is also a patch submitted to change the PORTCOMMENT variable to COMMENT. Either way, we'll be changing this a bit, so for now, please don't do any more conversions. Thanks, Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message