ports/63059: linux-flashplugin LATEST_LINK and RESTRICTED fixes

Brandon D. Valentine brandon at dvalentine.com
Fri Feb 27 21:10:12 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR ports/63059; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon at dvalentine.com>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/63059: linux-flashplugin LATEST_LINK and RESTRICTED fixes
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:08:41 -0600

 On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:31:36AM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
 > 
 > Ok, I understand what should be done here. May I make two suggestions:
 
 Thanks for reviewing this, Oliver.
 
 > - it would be nice to have the link creation in a pkg-install script,
 >  since the autodetection fails if the port is installed from a package
 
 The port sets NO_PACKAGE and RESTRICTED.  Do I still need to worry about
 pkg-install time?  =)
 
 > - a more-or-less short comment what would be removed and why wouldn't be 
 > bad,
 >  (especially because this may remove symlinks not created by the port).
 >  I'm not sure where to place this comments, though. Perhaps the pkg-install
 >  script where the links are created is a good place.
 
 I'm not sure where the best place to put this is either.  Should I just
 put a comment in the Makefile or do I need to print a warning to the
 user at install time?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Brandon D. Valentine
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