Subject: Re: Errors in packages.
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
From: David Burgess <burgess@mitre.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/02/2001 16:08:43
Not a problem - I'll take care of these and get back to you on the one's
that are still not working right for me.

Dave

Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'll comment on some of those:
> 
> Mutt made me believe that Burgess,David B. wrote:
> > -  imap-uw has a couple of serious errors:
> >       -- The package builds a .la archive, but tries to install it as a .a .   The
> > PLIST may or may not be  right, I can't remember.
> >       -- There is no COMMENTS file.
> 
> There's not supposed to be any COMMENTs file. I changed every package
> some time ago to have the COMMENT in the Makefile. Please update
> bsd.pkg.mk and pkglint.
> 
> >       --  The php4 package fails since it relies on zlib, which (theoretically)
> > is Sun only.  I tried it anyway, and the only problem I could see was that
> > it doesn't install a .a or .la file.  Why is zlib marked as Sun only if it
> > actually mostly works in i386?  There are also a couple of ${LOCALBASE}
> > directories missing from the .common file.
> 
> The php4 package only should depend on zlib on Sun, because NetBSD has
> zlib in base, and for some time now (definitively in 1.5).
> The only mention of zlib I could find related to that package is
> .if ${OPSYS} == "SunOS"
> DEPENDS+=               zlib-*:../../devel/zlib
> .endif
> in php4/Makefile.common.
> 
> >       --  It also has to have openssl 0.9.6, which is not installed in 1.5 (but
> 
> 1.5 has openssl, and I think it even has the same version that is
> right now in pkgsrc, which isn't 0.9.6 yet. There was a short time
> (2/27 to 3/1) when the package believed to be already at 0.9.6, but
> this was an error, and corrected.
> Why do you think it depends on 0.9.6?
> 
> > 1)  To whom should I send the package fixes?  Is send-pr the only right
> > vehicle for these?
> 
> Yes, it is. Please group problem reports by package.
> 
> Bye,
>  Thomas
> 
> --
> Thomas Klausner - wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at
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