Need the tester for gdesklets-starterbar on FreeBSD 4.x only..

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Mar 9 21:05:02 PST 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:00, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:36:48 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 18:34, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I need someone to do the test deskutils/gdesklets-starterbar on FreeBSD
> >> 4.x, which Joe gave me the headup that misc/ossp-uuid went in the ports
> >> tree last month. The FreeBSD 5.x already has uuidgen, but not in 4.x. I
> >> almost forgot about it, so now I have finally do it.
> >>
> >> Here's an attach of gdesklets-starterbar.diff.
> >
> > Looks good except it looks like you have an errant 'i' in your
> > pkg-message.
> 
> Insterest, not sure where 'i' came from. Heh, thanks for notice and I will 
> remove it.
> 
> > Also, since you're generating your pkg-message on the fly,
> > please stick pkg-message into files/ and reference it from ${FILESDIR}
> > (the way it is now will cause breakage).
> 
> It doesn't break so far, pav added in one of my gdesklet port and I 
> followed. So, do you still want me to change other gdesklets ports (maybe 
> two or three) too? One thing that I don't understand what you mean by 
> 'reference it from ${FILESDIR}'?

Yes you will need to change all ports.  Referring to a file by relative
path is almost always a bad idea.  You can do something like I did in
security/pam_ldap where you keep the file in the same directory, or
something like net-mgmt/cricket where the pkg-message is processed from
${FILESDIR}.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mezz
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