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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:28:30 +0200
From:      Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
Cc:        pav@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Latest/perl.tbz symlink missing on FTP mirrors
Message-ID:  <20090921102829.GY54962@droso.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AB70BEA.1040303@p6m7g8.com>
References:  <20090920153446.GA85928@icarus.home.lan> <1253464064.55460.0.camel@hood.oook.cz> <4AB70BEA.1040303@p6m7g8.com>

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:15:22AM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >=20
> > yes, we (portmgr) noticed this too. But we don't know why it happens,
> > yet.
>=20
> I'm 99% sure its because lang/perl5.10 is built after lang/perl5.8 and
> the latter sets NO_LATEST_LINK=3Dyes.
>=20
> 1) lang/perl5.10 should set latest link to perl5.10
> 2) it should not set no latest link
> 3) lang/perl5.8 should set latest link to perl5.8
>=20
Peter Losher poked me about this a few days ago at EuroBSDCon and I
looked into it, but didn't find the cause yet.  It's on my TODO list for
when I get home.  Your analysis is unfortunately not right, as it's not
just perl but from what I can tell all latest links, so something bad is
definately going on.

-erwin

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Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin@FreeBSD.org

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