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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:59:04 +0100
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sergei Vyshenski <svysh@pn.sinp.msu.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: lang/perl5.8 use.perl wipes away /etc/make.conf
Message-ID:  <20071119215904.GC75517@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <47419DEE.2070900@pn.sinp.msu.ru>
References:  <47419DEE.2070900@pn.sinp.msu.ru>

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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:30:06PM +0300, Sergei Vyshenski wrote:

> portupgrade -f perl-5.8.8_1 
> erases from /etc/make.conf
> all lines, which contain literals "PERL",
> including lines:
> 
> WITHOUT_PERL_MALLOC=yes
> 
> WITHOUT_USE_PERL=yes
> 
> and replaces all of them with just 3 lines:
> 
> # added by use.perl 2007-11-19 13:34:51
> PERL_VER=5.8.8
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
> 
> This seemingly violates an idea, that everything
> put by hand into /etc/... should be kept intact.
> If this is an intended behavior of the port, could you please recommend how 
> to go around this.

I'll investigate, thanks for the report.

-- 
We're going for 'working' here. 'clean' is for people with skills...
-- Flemming Jacobsen



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