From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 14:37:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B7B16A469 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:37:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE3513C474 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:37:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 769055C5A; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:37:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:37:52 -0500 From: Wesley Shields To: abi@e-arroyo.net Message-ID: <20080130143752.GQ62012@atarininja.org> References: <34597.75.36.171.238.1201670705.squirrel@www.e-arroyo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34597.75.36.171.238.1201670705.squirrel@www.e-arroyo.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports package: m4-1.4.9,1.tbz X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:37:47 -0000 On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:05PM -0600, abi@e-arroyo.net wrote: > > I wanted to install the following port: m4-1.4.9,1.tbz > > I found that this port contains a comma. This typically isn't a character > included in package names, and suspect that something is wrong. Is this > the appropriate list for posting such as issue? ports@ is probably a better list. As for the comma, that's normal for some FreeBSD packages and comes from the value of PORTEPOCH in the ports Makefile. For more information on what that means please see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-naming.html#MAKEFILE-NAMING-REVEPOCH > As an aside, what kind of auditing and testing do ports packages undergo? > My understanding is that the testing done on ports packages is very low. > What are the requirements for getting added to the ports? Thanks in > advance. What do you mean by auditing? Packages are built and undergo testing to make sure they build, install, and deinstall properly. Run-time testing is not something that is directly exercised on all the ports though some do get limited run-time testing (I'm thinking of FETCH_DEPENDS or other similar things). -- WXS