Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:26:30 -0700 From: Seth Kingsley <sethk@meowfishies.com> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: sysutils/bpm fails to notice that portupgrade is already installed Message-ID: <20040827212630.GB98676@mail.meowfishies.com> In-Reply-To: <52B1782C-F85C-11D8-AC6A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> References: <20040827184233.GU52239@toxic.magnesium.net> <52B1782C-F85C-11D8-AC6A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:07:21PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Adam Weinberger wrote:
>=20
> >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.
>=20
> Feel free. Note that the problem should hit many other ports, like=20
> www/caudium12. Also, have you tried to *run* bpm without portupgrade in=
=20
> your $PATH? AFAICS bpm assumes to find portupgrade there (granted: I=20
> haven't tried, just looked at the source, so I may be wrong).
It does use execvp("portupgrade", ...
> In my book, not having ${LOCALBASE}/sbin in your path is calling for=20
> trouble, since you assume that every binary that uses these tools have=20
> their path hardcoded. When you extend this to ${LOCALBASE}/bin, you will=
=20
> even exclude more binaries...
I agree, of course. I thought it was ``unsupported'' to remove anything in
login.conf from your $PATH, rather than just appending to it.
--=20
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