Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:19:20 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> To: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> 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: <4AB7DFC8.2000901@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <20090921102829.GY54962@droso.net> References: <20090920153446.GA85928@icarus.home.lan> <1253464064.55460.0.camel@hood.oook.cz> <4AB70BEA.1040303@p6m7g8.com> <20090921102829.GY54962@droso.net>
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Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:15:22AM -0400, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: >> Pav Lucistnik wrote: >>> Hi Jeremy, >>> >>> yes, we (portmgr) noticed this too. But we don't know why it happens, >>> yet. >> I'm 99% sure its because lang/perl5.10 is built after lang/perl5.8 and >> the latter sets NO_LATEST_LINK=yes. >> >> 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 >> > 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. Well that might be the 'current' case, but lang/perl5.10's latest link has not been present for 6+ months. I'd be fine if lang/perl5.8 didn't override LATEST_LINK. I still think 1 and 2 are correct changes regardless of the underlying issue. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024D/DB9B8C1C B90B FBC3 A3A1 C71A 8E70 3F8C 75B8 8FFB DB9B 8C1C Philip M. Gollucci (pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) c: 703.336.9354 Consultant - P6M7G8 Inc. http://p6m7g8.net Senior Sys Admin - RideCharge, Inc. http://ridecharge.com ASF Member - Apache Software Foundation http://apache.org FreeBSD Committer - FreeBSD Foundation http://freebsd.org Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.
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