Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:26:58 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: Mike Durian <durian@shadetreesoftware.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/libwww and SSL Message-ID: <20061229212658.GA87752@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1A211FD8C37E9E9379B4526E@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <200612291040.29615.durian@shadetreesoftware.com> <20061229190954.GA84882@icarus.home.lan> <1A211FD8C37E9E9379B4526E@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:58:41PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On December 29, 2006 11:09:54 AM -0800 Jeremy Chadwick > <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > >The current maintainer of this port is... no one! :-) Which means, > >if you could submit a patch, that'd be great. > > > >Keep in mind that the change involved will require more than just a > >simple Makefile tweak. You will also need to update pkg-plist to > >keep track of the extra libraries installed, any extra documentation, > >or utilities as a result of --with-ssl. Since there's a shared > >library involved, you should also use USE_LDCONFIG=yes to update > >the ld.so cache. > > Is a patch really necessary? The port was created in 1996. There's been > no further development of the software since 12 Jun, 2002. This is > apparently the first time someone has even noticed the lack of an option > to include a make arg for ssl. It seems that a one-off request is hardly > reason to update the port. > > If someone wants to port sipX, then libwww would have to be built with > ssl, but I doubt that should be the default anyway. If it should, it > would certainly take some testing to see what effect it had all the other > ports for which it is a dependency (which is quite a few, I believe.) Am I reading this correctly? You *don't* want www/libwww updated to support WITH_SSL because it's a "one-off request" involving an upstream port dependancy? (re: sipX) I just want to make sure I'm reading this correctly. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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