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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:04:44 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> 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}.

Ok, I will fix up the gdesklets-starterbar and send it to PR, then create 
a diff with few ports in it to fix that pkg-message and send it to PR. 
Thanks for take the look!

Cheers,
Mezz

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


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