Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 20:26:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de>, ijliao@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, sobomax@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync 5.x breakage Message-ID: <20020617202647.D20621@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20020616114359.C24973@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0700 References: <20020616040000.A16402@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020616123029.GA12998@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> <20020616114359.C24973@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > ==> ${REINPLACE_CMD} has different semantics on -current and -stable
> >
> > Maintainer only using -stable won't be able to get that error and fix it
> > _before_ submitting.
>
> Yeah, I really don't like this. At the very minimum there needs to be
> an easy way port maintainers can test with all variants of the
> REINPLACE_CMD implementation to make sure it works in all cases. The
> differences in regexp syntax is going to be another major cause of
> tears.
Personally I fail to see what is so wrong with making Perl a
BUILD_DEPENDS. I did this for my own ports. IMO just about every system
out there is going to have perl installed for one reason or another. So
I don't see this as an unreasonable dependancy.
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