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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--8+OS07CeIgZ706fH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org --8+OS07CeIgZ706fH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKt1VNqy9aWxUlaZARAniFAJwJmcjQufL++SK5uQIDMhAyBDsjLACeNd3k SeC0nkkm7AAIiFVUDFgqtyA= =2uhR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8+OS07CeIgZ706fH--
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