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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:20:18 +0800
From:      "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
To:        "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
Cc:        perl@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] archivers/p5-Compress-LZW: CPAN Macro
Message-ID:  <6eb82e0803230320y6a5e9499ne05ebc3ab0530eaa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Philip M. Gollucci
<pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> wrote:
> Rong-en Fan wrote:
>  > First, when you using CPAN, it has SUBDIR set to the correct
>  > directory if you use module's name as PORTNAME.
>  D'oh I didn't see that logic in bsd.*mk
>
>
>  > Second, I'm not sure if this is a good idea to that just switch to the macro
>  > without any version update.
>  Since when has a port update to newer FreeBSD ports architecture needed
>  a version update too?

I think there is a tradition to do so if this is done port by port.
I believer this kind of change should be done in one big commit
if this is the way to go.

>  What about port@ ports?

perl@ is not ports@.

>  Also, what about ports that use authors path one ?
>  archivers/p5-IO-Zlib
>  -MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=    ../../authors/id/T/TO/TOMHUGHES

It's not supported by the CPAN module. But it IO/ contains
IO::Zlib, then remove the authors subdir (IIRC, this is a long
term goal of perl ports).

>  > If perl@ thinks that we are going to use CPAN macro by default,
>  > then perhaps change all perl@ maintained ports at once will
>  > be better.
>  Even is thats the case, I can still submit one patch for it perl@ agrees.

Yes, but I suggest that you submit one PR for all perl@ ports. :-)

Regards,
Rong-En Fan

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