Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:58:16 +0100 From: n j <nino80@gmail.com> To: glarkin@freebsd.org Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Logcheck dependency hell Message-ID: <92bcbda50902240758k34df5a33v81b04267fdb05afd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49A3117A.9030004@FreeBSD.org> References: <92bcbda50902120422x7c73808dy650d6918054af9f4@mail.gmail.com> <20090213200559.GB94579@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <49A3117A.9030004@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Greg, On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org> wrote: > I'm the maintainer of security/logcheck, and I apologize for not > catching up with my inbox sooner. =A0I just saw your message, and the sam= e > issue was reported by someone else a couple of weeks ago. sorry if the subject (the "hell" part) has been too harsh, it was just a figure of speech. Thanks for the work put in the port and the patch and no need to apologize, the response time is totally acceptable for the price I pay the port maintainer :-). And as far as free support goes, I would like to thank Mel for the detailed help and the pointer to the miscreant (Mk/bsd.port.mk). > I have it on my list to update the port to avoid using docbook-to-man. I've been looking to do the same and came across docbook2x (http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/) which seems to be just perl-dependent - perhaps that might be used instead of the docbook-to-man. However, it's not in the ports tree and the development seems to be stalled (last release March 2007). http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/DocBook-Install/using.html#AEN600 shows how to install and use it, though. > In the mean, please apply the attached patch to your Makefile, and it > will prevent all of those deps from getting included in the build. I haven't had the time yet to test it, but as soon as I get to installing logcheck with your patch, I'll let you know the results. > Also, please cc the port maintainer when reporting a port-related bug to > freebsd-questions@, since not all of them follow the list. The easy way Well, I'm not really what you'd call a port-guru to easily claim dependency a bug and bother the maintainer, especially since I couldn't find an easy way to locate what pulls that dependency to file a useful bug report, but I'll follow your advice in the future. Regards, --=20 Nino
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