Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:21:09 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20601: DESTDIR and /etc/shells Message-ID: <20010823172108.B2573@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <200108231510.f7NFA2A96921@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jhein@timing.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:10:02AM -0700 References: <200108231510.f7NFA2A96921@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu 2001-08-23 (08:10), John E Hein wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/20601; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Cc: lwa@victor.teaser.fr > Subject: Re: ports/20601: DESTDIR and /etc/shells > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:03:00 -0600 > > There is a proposed fix for this overall problem, but I haven't heard any > public feedback, positive or negative, about it. If you are interested, > please test the patch and submit comments. > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28155 > > It goes to fixing the underlying problem with the improper treatment > of PREFIX and DESTDIR in bsd.port.mk. A number of individual ports > will have to be fixed as well since they depend on the broken behavior > of bsd.port.mk. But there are many ports already broken anyway (such > as the ones mentioned in both this PR (20601) and the PR above (28155)). It's pretty obvious that a large number of ports will not support DESTDIR immediately after the change. However, I do believe it's something we must have. If I do some testing locally, can we move forward with this a week after 4.4-RELEASE is out the door? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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