Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:10:04 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl and other fixes to bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <199808100710.JAA09630@gratis.grondar.za>
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Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
>
> Thanks for your comment, but....
>
> * Satoshi Asami wrote:
> * > How about this one? It defines new variables ${PERL_VERSION}
> * > (5.00501) and ${PERL_VER} (5.005), which are substituted for
> * > %%PERL_VERSION%% and %%PERL_VERS%% in the PLIST.
> *
> * This is all cool, but I am about half-way through working on
> * Perl5 for CURRENT, which will make all of this moot.
>
> (1) Perl5 will not go in to -stable (which is the current "supported"
> release, and we have one more release coming up from that branch),
> so it will not be moot.
Ah! I got confused, and was assuming that 2.2.6 was the final
release in 2.2.*.
> (2) The add-on packages (p5-* ports) will remain in the ports tree, so
> I don't understand why perl5 going into /usr/src has anything to
> do with the situation.
I am going to nuke all references to the version number in directory names.
M
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