Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:39:16 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updating p5-* ports for perl-5.005_01 Message-ID: <199808120939.LAA03003@gratis.grondar.za>
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Satoshi Asami wrote: > "wrote"? :) Damn mailer broken :-( > Will there be anything left behind? I was under the impression that > 5.00n+1 is always a strict superset of 5.00n. :) Oh, no! They change things in wierd-and-wonderful ways. > Seriously, maybe you're right. I don't even pretend to know anything > about perl binaries (didn't even know they are binary!), so I'll stop > here. :-) > * Sure. That also makes sense. I can go that way too. Given that it seems > * to be receiving more support, Ill doo that until the flames arrive :-). > > Ok, but just don't blame it on me if people don't like it. :> All my own work. The flames will be pretty cool by the time they cross the Atlantic :-) > I don't mind them going into /usr/local/man/man3, but maybe some > others do. how about /usr/local/share/perl/man/man3, maybe with the > version number inserted somewhere to be consistent (-ly annoying) with > others? (Or are manpages version-dependent too?) They can be, but this can be fixed. I like /usr/local/share/perl5/man/... > Ok, will commit in a minute. (Call me paranoid, but I'm testing it > again...since I backed that part out of my earlier commit and > re-merged it....) Cool. The question is not whether you are paranoid or not, the questions is wheter you are paranoid _enough_. :-) > But then some things moved under version-specific or machine-specific > directories while some others didn't. That was what was confusing me. The guys making the packages didn't always get it right. > Oh well. I was just "find"ing the filenames and patching up the > PLISTs. I'm not going to fix any more perl ports anyway. The rest is > someone else's problem. :) Great things, SEP fields :-) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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