Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:49:29 -0400 (EDT) From: parv@pair.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: andreas@syndrom23.de Subject: ports/100757: shells/mksh - Update comment & pkg-descr with a PATCH Message-ID: <20060723164929.F1991BABA@default.chvlva.adelphia.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200607231650.k6NGoFlD014042@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100757 >Category: ports >Synopsis: shells/mksh - Update comment & pkg-descr with a PATCH >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 23 16:50:15 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Parv >Release: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: To me, the original korn shell would be be ksh88 not pdksh. Current package description ... The MirBSD Korn Shell, which contains many additions to the original Korn shell. ... gives the impression that mksh could be based on ksh88 (or, even on ksh93). It is, however, based on pdksh. Further, the web page (available at the URL given) expands "mksh" to "MirBSD Korn Shell" not "MirOS korn Shell". Following patch borrows the description from ... http://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/~checkout~/ports/shells/mksh/package/DESCR?rev=1.4;content-type=text%2Fplain >How-To-Repeat: cat $PORTSDIR/shells/mksh/pkg-descr >Fix: --- Makefile.old Sun Jul 23 12:44:37 2006 +++ Makefile Sun Jul 23 12:47:00 2006 @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ DISTFILES= ${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}.cpio.gz MAINTAINER= andreas@syndrom23.de -COMMENT= A Korn shell with many additions +COMMENT= A MirBSD enhanced shell based on pdksh WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME} --- pkg-descr.old Sun Jul 23 12:18:48 2006 +++ pkg-descr Sun Jul 23 12:42:06 2006 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -The MirOS Korn Shell, which contains many additions to the original -Korn shell. +The MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public +Domain Korn shell (pdksh), a bourne-compatible shell which is largely +similar to the original AT&T Korn shell. WWW: http://mirbsd.de/mksh >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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