From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 31 19:33:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF40916A4CF; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:33:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8227B43D49; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:33:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7VJXV5Q055161; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i7VJXVLE055160; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:33:31 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Anton Berezin Message-ID: <20040831193331.GA54995@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20040829090603.GA38690@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040831175742.GB49824@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040831175742.GB49824@heechee.tobez.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (FWD) [PATCH] disable perl 5.8's spamming of /etc/make.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:33:32 -0000 Hi Anton, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:57:42PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 02:06:03AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > tobez doesn't seem to be reading FreeBSD mail. > > Can anyone here comment on this? > Sorry I did not answer your mail before, since I was on vacation. Sorry that I didn't notice that earlier. > This patch would not do, since replacing -ge with -lt will lead to > use.perl port being executed automatically for 4.X, which we definitely > not want. Ah, yes that's not so good. > Alternatively, we can get rid of use.perl for 5.X and 6-CURRENT, take > care of manpath.config in some other way (probably by properly > maintaining manpath.config in the system sources, which has its own > ugly side), and then do something like > > if [ $osreldate -ge 500032 -a $osreldate -le 502100 ] ; then > > in pkg-install, so that we still get the `traditional' behavior in older > 5.X's. > > What do you think? I like your alternative suggestion, and in fact highly prefer it. We could also make 'use.perl' only handle the manpath.config part. I just don't see the need for PERL_VER, PERL_VERSION, PERL_ARCH, NOPERL, NO_PERL, and NO_PERL_WRAPPER in every /etc/make.conf in the world on 5.3 and later. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)