Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:40:27 +0000 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Gettext issues (was Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES) Message-ID: <20040301104026.GC27008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1078098236.62463.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <200402040638.i146cVAi035977@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040229233524.GA48293@dragon.nuxi.com> <1078098236.62463.50.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 06:43:56PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:35, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:38:31PM -0800, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > marcus 2004/02/03 22:38:31 PST > > > > > > FreeBSD ports repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > . CHANGES > > > Log: > > > Add the latest round of bsd.*.mk changes. > > > > This is good, but we need more in this file about: > > > > On 5-CURRENT after the 5.2-RELEASE split, the default Perl version > > has been updated from 5.6.1 to 5.8.2. > > > > What's the recipe for handling this? > > > > 'pkg_add -r <something_that_depends_on_perl>' will hose a 5.2-CURRENT > > system that started out life as a 5.1-CURRENT system or older. Because > > perl 5.8 will be installed, splatting on top of the already installed > > perl 5.6. portupgrade doesn't know that perl 5.8 is a newer version of > > perl; so it won't upgrade an installed perl 5.6 to 5.8 and fix all the > > dependencies of already installed ports. > > You're right, it won't. What I had to do (though mainly for gettext and > libpthread and not so much Perl) was a portupgrade -rf perl-5\*. All > Perl modules need to be rebuilt under the new version of Perl so that > they can be found correctly. Talking of gettext: I've been toying with the idea of having WITHOUT_NLS settable in sysinstall, or defaulting NLS to off. I believe most FreeBSD users will want the english version, even if translations are available. As a such, I think inflicting the level of pain the gettext changes give on our users unless they find a fairly obscure knob is a Bad Idea. Any thoughts? Eivind.
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