Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:44:05 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ugly perl module install Message-ID: <F72BDC8E639C5B5885276AC2@[192.168.1.51]> In-Reply-To: <20040809182919.GB27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20040809173201.GA27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <200408092020.14524.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20040809182919.GB27989@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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--==========C0FCAD0F01B0375C490D========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline +-Le 09/08/2004 14:29 -0400, Michael W. Lucas a dit : | On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: |> On Monday 09 August 2004 19:32, Michael W. Lucas wrote: |> > Hi, |> > |> > Before I go state in an article that we have an ugly port, I thought |> > I'd mention it to the maintainer (ports@) |> |> Ports@ is no maintainer, it's a mailinglist. | | ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow;grep -i maintainer Makefile | MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org | ratbastard/usr/ports/net-mgmt/p5-Cflow; | | So, I wrote the maintainer. :-) >From the porter's handbook, chapter 15 : | Note that unmaintained ports are listed with a maintainer of | ports@FreeBSD.org, which is just the general ports mailing list, so | sending mail there probably will not help in this case. :-) |> > Surely we could, say, include a patch to net-mgmt/p5-Cflow to make the |> > port check for $PREFIX/lib/libft.a rather than the ../../lib/libft.a? |> > |> > If not, I'll document the ugliness in this instance and make a cranky |> > comment about how knowing how to actually build software is still |> > useful these days, and these kids don't know how good they have it |> > with "configure" and so on... ;-) |> |> A working patch/Makefile change/whatever, submitted via send-pr would be |> more useful. It seems you already have spent some time figuring the |> problem out, why not provide a fix? | | If just patching the source like this is legal, then I'll do that. Well, look at the number of files named patch-* in the ports tree, you'll see how much we patch :-) | I don't generally go near the ports, and hence don't keep up with the | standard way of doing things (other than the user perspective, of | course.) It only hurts the first time ;-) -- Mathieu Arnold --==========C0FCAD0F01B0375C490D========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iQEVAwUBQRfF+lvROjYJ63c1AQItuwf9HcwqRPM15FRmF4yQ7dOUm4HYaMAMqne0 nVmX8GrPDmNHRLbFDDhPDizBXHftM2e8B1dawe/P48Om5fY5X+TLssOXWGibx2j1 XROBJzAp9Ww4A5EjQGyccQwkK7ev+lIeBRUXeFy5gOeN6CzDeygzvLHQuc19QWOn oss2VOPi3pBLO0+m1e0hP0pQLcJ4M24q1MBY1nZX80lbUVLZ/FJPjZAzalXdtRLh RiWF1TGCuc8DiChNqhppNMrJm18PCSsGmapygNGw7icdmnu6/DnDnGK2d9PANl9r N2bNMULZfRJTBNaosXQ+FC48cUB9YQuRSgl8NpXCoTpBLI/6NXi/2A== =MFNS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========C0FCAD0F01B0375C490D==========--
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