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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