From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 18:42:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F3216A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:42:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D32B543D76 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:42:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1252) id 8E795DA847; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:42:33 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger To: Oliver Eikemeier Message-ID: <20040827184233.GU52239@toxic.magnesium.net> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , Oliver Eikemeier , Dan Langille , sethk@meowfishies.com, ports@FreeBSD.org References: <20040827182237.GP52239@toxic.magnesium.net> <7317C1EB-F858-11D8-AC6A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7317C1EB-F858-11D8-AC6A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.2 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx X-ASL: 6/m/behind you User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: sethk@meowfishies.com cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Dan Langille Subject: Re: sysutils/bpm fails to notice that portupgrade is already installed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:42:34 -0000 >> (08.27.2004 @ 1439 PST): Oliver Eikemeier said, in 0.8K: << > Adam Weinberger wrote: > > >So is this a local problem for Dan, do you think, or would it be in > >everyone's best interest to change bpm's portupgrade dependency? > > I think it is in everyone's best interest to have a common view of the > problem, so just changing the dependency in sysutils/bpm won't changee > much. > > Either we change *all* dependencies to executables in > /usr/local/{sbin,bin}, or we set the PATH to include > ${LOCALBASE}/{sbin,bin} in bsd.port.mk, or we require users to have > /usr/local/{sbin,bin} in the PATH. > > As far as I am concerned I would go for solution #2, and I think > requiring users to have /usr/local/{sbin,bin} in the PATH (which is the > default in /usr/share/skel/dot.profile) as a workaround until we have > things fixed seems OK to me. > > -Oliver >> end of "Re: sysutils/bpm fails to notice that portupgrade is already installed" from Oliver Eikemeier << But, in the meantime, if there is a significant cross-section of users who won't be able to use the bpm port, I would rather change the dependency line to make things Just Work. I haven't heard of the problem from anybody other than Dan, and I don't know whether it exists for others. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx