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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:30:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/22783: mailman port overloads $UNAME
Message-ID:  <200011121730.JAA27973@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/22783; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: andrew@ugh.net.au
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/22783: mailman port overloads $UNAME
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:29:15 +0200

 Look at PR ports/22717 - it includes this variable name change along with
 upgrading mailman to the latest version due to security vulnerabilities in
 the version in the ports tree.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
 -- 
 This sentence was in the past tense.
 
 On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:53:22PM +1100, andrew@ugh.net.au wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         22783
 > >Category:       ports
 > >Synopsis:       mailman port overloads $UNAME
 [snip]
 > >Description:
 > 
 > The mailman port uses the variable $UNAME to store the default username for
 > mailman. Unfortunately /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk uses the $UNAME variable to
 > store the path of uname(1). This produces errors such as:
 > 
 > mailman: not found
 > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 518: warning: "mailman -m" returned non-zero status
 > mailman: not found
 > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 526: warning: "mailman -s" returned non-zero status
 > mailman: not found
 > 
 > when running make (at least with make -V VAR and probably other args).
 


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