From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Nov 12 9:30: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF0637B65E for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA27973; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:30:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011121730.JAA27973@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: ports/22783: mailman port overloads $UNAME Reply-To: Peter Pentchev Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/22783; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/22783: mailman port overloads $UNAME Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:29:15 +0200 Look at PR ports/22717 - it includes this variable name change along with upgrading mailman to the latest version due to security vulnerabilities in the version in the ports tree. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence was in the past tense. On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:53:22PM +1100, andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > > >Number: 22783 > >Category: ports > >Synopsis: mailman port overloads $UNAME [snip] > >Description: > > The mailman port uses the variable $UNAME to store the default username for > mailman. Unfortunately /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk uses the $UNAME variable to > store the path of uname(1). This produces errors such as: > > mailman: not found > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 518: warning: "mailman -m" returned non-zero status > mailman: not found > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 526: warning: "mailman -s" returned non-zero status > mailman: not found > > when running make (at least with make -V VAR and probably other args). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message