From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 12 02:40:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA00494 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:40:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA00323; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:p1U4l8pnQGzUogokVUMDzJRLE5I8QfIv@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA03003; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:39:18 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199808120939.LAA03003@gratis.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 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:39:16 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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