From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 19 23:19:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E2C16A412 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sailorfred@yahoo.com) Received: from web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1971443D5A for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:19:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sailorfred@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 64103 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Sep 2006 23:19:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=C03QgrlfZl0b4ZHD7c9Yp/hsrppmi1ixnZSMIz5iOBzCqr5QzgpI5HvVY8MKUtgV+xPoGu1jgohZGrvyeFTXavJmmGafCMJx7npDE2ZfZAJhK3d/ABHFL6d1utyjCJxbecNM8gRtahUj+Ptw1qsekm9nQHkLIcIEd2jyFg2q4Ro= ; Message-ID: <20060919231923.64101.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.18.7.193] by web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:19:23 PDT Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:19:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cox To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20060919230923.GA50556@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: www/dotproject out of date and vulnerable X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: ,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: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:19:24 -0000 --- Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:00:14PM -0700, Fred Cox > wrote: > > --- Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:25:45PM -0700, Fred > Cox > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > > > "Will fail to package" is pretty far from > > > perfection > > > > > in my book :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't believe I ever said that. It builds > fine > > > and > > > > even runs, it just has lots of bugs. > > > > > > > > Can you let me know what I said that gave you > that > > > > impression? > > > > > > Based on what we've discussed, the proposed > changes > > > to the port will > > > make it fail to build with default settings > (since > > > mysql 4 will be > > > installed), for example on the package build > > > cluster. > > > > > > > I missed that requirement. > > > > So basically, until it can run with PHP 5 and > MySQL 5, > > it's not good enough to be a port. Restricting it > to > > run with PHP 4 will mean that it will be rejected? > > No, I guess you've still misunderstood. I don't > know how many times I > can say this, but let me try to explain once more: > your port should be > buildable with the default settings of all ports > involved. > > This means that you can't place special requirements > like "you have to > first install mysql 3.x, then install the php4-mysql > port, then > install this port", because that is too non-generic > and will not be > true on systems that already have php4-mysql > installed with the > default mysql client. > > The solution, which I explained several messages > ago, is to make an > alternative php4-mysql3 port, which always depends > on mysql 3.x, and > use that instead of php4-mysql (it may need to > conflict with > php4-mysql, I don't know). This really isn't very > hard and you > perhaps could have done it already by now :) > When I was trying to install this in first place, I couldn't install mysql323-client when mysql5-client was already installed. It refused to install. I had to install it into a jail by itself with msyql323 and php4. I assume that will break the requirement that it be buildable with defaults, assuming that some other port that requires mysql has already been built. Is that a bad assumption? Thanks for the education, Fred > Kris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com