From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 19 18:15:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29883 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29838 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:15:52 GMT (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA01487 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:15:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:15:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: porting question regarding AfterStep-1.4.4 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I have a port of AfterStep-1.4.4 JUST about ready to go, but I've run into a problem. The PLIST, due to the way AS does its configuration now, has items in it that have "(" and ")" in their names. This doesn't seem to cause any trouble during a make install, make deinstall, or pkg_delete. However, it appears to have caused pkg_add to fail. The pkg_add process starts just dandy and goes for awhile, then says "Syntax error - unexpected '(' found" and although I can continue to hear the disk grind, the actual copying of files appears to stop and the package does not get registered. It's NOT just the files with "(" in them that don't get installed either. Do I need to escape the parentheses w/ a "\" or something? There are also items in the PLIST that have spaces in them - does the same thing apply to them (although I've seen no errors concerning them)? A second question - it's my feeling that since this is actually not a release, but a development release that it shouldn't replace 1.0. There are a few bits of 1.4.4 that are unstable (this may be due to my not understanding the new configuration), but it's much more coherent and stable than their 1.4 release. I do not think it's quite as stable as 1.0. Can we have an afterstep-devel port and still keep the 1.0 port around or should I just diff the 1.4.4 against the 1.0 port? They are significantly different. Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message