Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 10:31:57 -0400 (EDT) From: ahd@kew.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/28365: Typical use of portchecheckout breaks interactive builds Message-ID: <20010623143157.B01D2BA16@minerva.uucp.kew.com>
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>Number: 28365 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Typical use of portchecheckout breaks interactive builds >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 23 07:40:00 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Drew Derbyshire >Release: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks >Environment: System: FreeBSD minerva.hh.kew.com 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #3: Sun Jun 17 14:05:19 EDT 2001 ahd@minerva.hh.kew.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MINERVA i386 >Description: The default operation of portcheckout is to write the shell to stdout, making it's obvious and least error prone method of running it live to be: portcheckout some-package-name | sh However, this breaks all ports which prompt for input during the fetch stage, such as postfix. >How-To-Repeat: portcheckout --fetch postfix-20010525_1 | sh >Fix: Modify portcheckout to support an option of actually running the generated shell script using a temporary file or other one-step method. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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