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Date:      Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:28:07 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        pav@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0
Message-ID:  <4783F8F7.8080107@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <29401398@bb.ipt.ru>
References:  <61565506@bb.ipt.ru> <4783E1C6.50001@FreeBSD.org>	<95483459@bb.ipt.ru> <1199830245.74596.155.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <29401398@bb.ipt.ru>

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Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:10:45 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> 
>> Boris Samorodov píše v st 09. 01. 2008 v 00:45 +0300:
> 
>>>> No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot
>>>> be wrapped.
>>> Hm, ports-mgmt/tinderbox masks it somehow... And doesn't get
>>> an error for this port.
> 
>> The FreeBSD version inside the tinderbox is same as the host?
> 
> No, the versions are different.
> 
>>>> This is common in the python world.  It needs to use
>>>> uname(1) or uname(3) or OSVERSION.
>>> The port itself (at the Makefile) uses "uname -r". There is something
>>> weird though.
> 
>> Not specific to this port - this is an issue with easydistutils or
>> whatsthename of that thing that does eggs.
> 
> But not all of python ports with eggs does not build at pointyhat.
> Err, I mean very few python ports with eggs get errors...

They have often been the cause of failure but someone apparently knows 
how to fix them :)

Kris




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