Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:21:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Dirk Meyer <dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/meta1 Makefile Message-ID: <20070730042132.GA95190@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <k9RLS81x4l@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> References: <z1/R6s1x4l@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <200706261648.l5QGmc0v079236@repoman.freebsd.org> <200706261648.l5QGmc0v079236@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070729183544.GC90318@rot26.obsecurity.org> <z1/R6s1x4l@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> <20070729211137.GA90226@rot26.obsecurity.org> <k9RLS81x4l@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:46:22AM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > > > > > > | +MANUAL_PACKAGE_BUILD= needs hostname > > > > > > > > Why does the package need a hostname? Often this is a bug, and either > > > > way the preferred solution is to fix it so it can be packaged. > > > > > > Ports failed in configure state, > > > as the empty hostname breaks some sanity checks. > > > > Yes, but why does the configure script need a hostname? In most cases > > it shouldn't be requiring one. > > This ist not most cases. > Some programs need to find out how the "hostname" command works. > If they get an empty result, this will fail. > > So rather them having pointyhat build bad packages, > I decided that users are better off without them. Sounds trivial to patch the configure script to skip the check since we know exactly how FreeBSD's hostname command works. Kris
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