Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:35:00AM +0000, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost wrote:
> >Number:         36259
> >Category:       pkg
> >Synopsis:       sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    pkg-manager
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Wed May 02 07:35:00 +0000 2007
> >Originator:     Robert Elz
> >Release:        NetBSD 3.99.15   (pkgsrc current within past 12 hours)
> >Organization:
>       Prince of Songkla University
> >Environment:
> System: NetBSD jade.coe.psu.ac.th 3.99.15 NetBSD 3.99.15 
> (GENERIC-1.696-20060125) #8: Wed Jan 25 04:59:39 ICT 2006 
> kre%jade.coe.psu.ac.th@localhost:/usr/obj/current/kernels/JADE_ASUS i386
> Architecture: i386
> Machine: i386
> >Description:
>       With PKG_DEVELOPER set (as is the default when using pkg_comp,
>       which is what I do), pkgsrc checks scripts in packages for
>       use of (truly idiotic) "test x == y" type commands that are
>       apaprently becoming common in some mutant universe.
> 
>       sysutils/xentools30 is (again) failing that test.
> 
>       "Again" as an earlier PR was files against an earlier version
>       of this package.   The solution at the time was to simply
>       turn off the tests (the scripts in question, then, not being
>       used or installed on NetBSD anyway).
> 
>       That now looks to have been a mistake - much better to fix the
>       scripts, and send the fixes back upstream, so the turkeys who
>       perpetrate this nonsense can learn how test should be used,
>       and this problem may decrease over time, instead of magnifying.

They certainly don't care as they're developing for linux/bash;
and I certainly won't spend time fixing scripts that are linux-specific
anyway. And I'll reject any fix that add more stuff to patches/ than
necessary.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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