Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porting question regarding AfterStep-1.4.4 Message-ID: <199804200440.VAA10469@baloon.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419185914.1448A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> (message from Brett Taylor on Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:15:34 -0600 (MDT))
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* Hi all,
Hi Brett,
* 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)?
I believe Jordan will fix that in a nanosecond. :)
* 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.
I just did a repository copy to afterstep144. Please send in the
patches with send-pr and someone will commit it. If you can make the
patches relative to the x11/afterstep144 port, that will make the
committer's job easier.
Satoshi
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