Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:48:07 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r403913 - in head: Mk archivers/rpm2cpio benchmarks/dbs converters/nomyso devel/p5-Sys-Virt dns/ddclient dns/ddclient/files german/BBBike graphics/ImageMagick graphics/ImageMagick7 grap... Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1601130949200.8075@anthias> In-Reply-To: <201512171719.tBHHJmbi028518@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201512171719.tBHHJmbi028518@repo.freebsd.org>
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Hi Mat, On Thu, 17 Dec 2015, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Author: mat > Date: Thu Dec 17 17:19:48 2015 > New Revision: 403913 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/403913 > > Log: > Fix usage of ${PERL5}. > > ${PERL5} points to a specific version of perl, say, perl5.22.1, it is > fine to use it in a ports Makefile to do Perly things, but ports using > it must use ${PERL}, that points to /usr/local/bin/perl so that if the > minor version is updated, the shebang keep working. thanks for doing this! It is the kind of laborsome, while not exactly glamorous change, that has more change to get you some complaint (some cornercase changing, for example) than anything else. Yet it is important to keep the Ports Collection resilient and easier to maintain. Kudos! (And kudos to others having made similar changes the last twelve months.) Gerald
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