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Date:      Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:11:22 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, mezz@FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.org, kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: Flaw in print/acroread7 (was: Re: [ru@FreeBSD.org: [patch] mixed i386/amd64 ports semi-broken])
Message-ID:  <20060130111122.ve8nfx72808gogok@netchild.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060130104518.09ad976a.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
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Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> It's not a bug in acroread7. It's a bug in bpm which causes ARCH to be
> read-only in submakes, or it's a bug in the ports which try to
> override ARCH without success since it's read-only in submakes;
> someone should decide.

Ruslan said that removing the bsd.port.mk code in question solves the problem
for him. This means that if port A depends upon port B, port B is able to
change the ARCH variable in port A. I would not expect this, and it's not
the way the current code works. This patch appears like a can of worms to
me.

Note: This implies that port A is able to decide upon the content of ARCH for
every port it depends upon. This may or may not be a can of worms too.
Personally I don't have a strong bad feeling about this part.

Bye,
Alexander.

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