Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:05:09 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Ana Maria Silva <ams@jonny.eng.br> Subject: Re: MLINKS in ports Makefiles Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9810281342520.30627-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <199810281854.QAA22768@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
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Perhaps you could qualify "it does not work". I made the
change and it worked then and still works now. This port
is a perfect example of what MLINKS is good at.
steve[/usr/local/man/man1]$ ls -l s{nice,kill}*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2761 Oct 28 13:38 skill.1.gz
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Oct 28 13:38 snice.1.gz -> skill.1.gz
steve[/usr/local/man/man1]$
As for your PS: comments, I make a very conscious effort
not to make changes to "maintained" ports without getting
the maintainer's consent first. In this case I was trying
to meet a release deadline and considered the change to
be trivial. And yes I did "fully test" it several times
before I committed it.
Please before submitting a patch to back this change out, help
us understand why it doesn't work for you, so that we can
fix it.
Thanks, Steve
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
# Hi,
#
# I'm in the process of updating the skill port, and noted that
# somebody changed my postinstall statement for a MLINKS entry. It would
# really be nice if that worked, but it does not.
#
# I'll submit the update very soon, with this backed-out. If this
# functionality is ever added (Hint, Satoshi, Hint ! :) ), please
# change again.
#
# Jonny
#
# PS: This means that whoever changed it did it: 1) Without telling me,
# the maintainer, which is not that bad, since the changes were small
# and caused by an upgrade of the ports systems (PLIST vs MAN), and
# 2) Without fully testing.
#
# --
# Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student
# jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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