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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:18:32 +0100
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@cichlids.com>
To:        perlguy@perlguy.com
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/14922: Want to contribute new package/port
Message-ID:  <19991117211832.A4326@cichlids.cichlids.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911172000.MAA16372@freefall.freebsd.org>; from perlguy@perlguy.com on Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:00:02PM -0800
References:  <199911172000.MAA16372@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Thus spake perlguy@perlguy.com (perlguy@perlguy.com):

>  I can't be this dumb! If after reading it a dozen I am not 'getting it', maybe something is missing from the docs. portlint isn't complaining, I have installed/deinstalled this thing many times, and all seems to work nicely.

The docs are ok. They work for everybody else, too.

>  >a) The distfile is wrong. Set DISTNAME to infobot0.44.3
>  > and PKGNAME to infobot-0.44.3 or something appreciate.
>  When I do this, and the tar.gz isn't on the system, it searches for infobot0.44.3.tar.gz, which is not correct. It seems to work how I have it now.

On the URL you used as MASTER_SITE I could only find a
-rw-r--r--  1 alex  alex  377806 17 Nov 15:15 infobot0.44.3.tar.gz

From lynx for your master-site:
 [   ]  infobot-current         26-Oct-1999 14:28   369k                        
 [   ]  infobot.0.43.51.tar     11-Apr-1999 03:49   540k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.43.0.tgz       17-Aug-1998 21:58   126k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.43.2.tgz       31-Oct-1998 19:30   129k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.43.4.tgz       17-Mar-1999 13:27   129k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.43.5.tgz       02-Apr-1999 21:18   132k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.43.6.tar.gz    05-May-1999 14:38   132k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.44.0.tar.gz    24-Jun-1999 06:40   173k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.44.1.tar.gz    16-Jul-1999 13:15   342k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.44.2.tar.gz    12-Aug-1999 15:30   339k                        
 [   ]  infobot0.44.3.tar.gz    26-Oct-1999 14:28   369k                        

Please _use_ that filename.

>  > c) Please rewrite your do-install target.   
>  > I) Only installt he files you need
>  All files in the infobot-0.44.x.tar.gz should be installed. In fact all it really should be is unpacking the zip, as it is doing now.

I can't see the use of the README, REVISIONS, and IMPORTANT... files.

>  > e) The dependency is wrong, Please add p5-Net or what it needs.
>  You may have missed in my last email that I mistakenly added the dependency. It has no dependencies other than core Perl distro. Below is the latest (and hopefully last!) shar, with only EFNet added to  the DESCR.

alex:~/ports/infobot-0.44.3 $ perl infobot 
Can't locate Net/Telnet.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at ./src/excuse.pl line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./src/excuse.pl line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at infobot line 42.
alex:~/ports/infobot-0.44.3 $ 

Is this usual?
Probably not - there is no Telnet.pm on my system.

Alex


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