Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:42:17 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes Message-ID: <1074591737.85583.24.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpad4jvu1u.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <1074590694.85583.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <xzpad4jvu1u.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 04:38, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Type: FEATURE
> >
> > Title: Add new command macros to bsd.port.mk
> >
> > Affects: bsd.port.mk
> >
> > Description: The following new command macros have been added to
> > bsd.port.mk: BRANDELF =3D> /usr/bin/brandelf, CPIO =3D> /usr/bin/cpio,
> > DIALOG =3D> /usr/bin/dialog, OBJCOPY =3D> /usr/bin/objcopy, PASTE =3D>
> > /usr/bin/paste, PAX =3D> /bin/pax, PRINTF =3D> /usr/bin/printf, SORT =
=3D>
> > /usr/bin/sort, UNZIP_CMD =3D> /usr/bin/unzip or ${LOCALBASE}/bin/unzip.
> >
> >
> > PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D59058
> >
> > Submitted by: eik
>=20
> I actually submitted a patch for CPIO ages ago, along with a few
> others which still haven't been committed (see attached patch).
I did a general call for patches over a week ago. If you had things you
wanted tested, that was the time to bring them up.
> The
> perl part of the patch is especially important and should have been
> committed before the 5.2-RELEASE package builds. Perl 5.6.1 is so old
> it's nearly useless, and installing a package with a dependency on
> Perl 5.6.1 will clobber Perl 5.8.2 without warning if it's installed.
This was discussed, but I think the Perl maintainer, tobez, didn't think
5.8.2 was ready. I'm certainly all for doing this, but I don't want to
disrupt working ports. If tobez agrees, this should be something we
will definitely test on the next experimental patches build.
Joe
>=20
> DES
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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