[CFR] ftp/curl update and API incompatibility

[Frank J. Laszlo]

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Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing to you all because you are listed as maintainers of ports
> that depend directly on ftp/curl.  Attached is a patch that updates
> ftp/curl to version 7.16.0; however, this update might need some testing.
> 
> There are some cURL options (CURLOPT_MUTE, CURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION, etc.)
> that have been deprecated for a long time now, yet they were still defined
> as compile-time constants to provide some kind of backwards compatibility.
> Well, 7.16.0 puts a stop to this - these options are now completely
> removed, and programs and libraries that still use them without checking
> will be broken.  Thus, the libcurl library version was bumped, hence my
> request for testing the update.
> 
> Attached is a patch that fixes all ports that depend on ftp/curl directly.
> The fixes consist of bumping the curl library version, bumping PORTREVISION,
> and, here and there, ifdef'ing the obsolete options.  I have verified that
> all the ports build now, except for astro/gaia and www/osb-nrcit; however,
> for most of them I could not very well check if they *work* :)  There is
> also the little matter of the PORTREVISION bump for the PHP ports, and
> the c-ares dependency of irc/unreal; but see below.
> 
> The patch itself is also available at
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/patches/curl/
> 
> So - this patch updates cURL to 7.16.0, and tries to fix all dependent
> ports.  The updates to the ports are trivial, with the following exceptions:
> 
> astro/gaia
> - Update blindly, it's forbidden for license reasons.
> 
> audio/vorbis-tools
> ftp/py-curl
> ftp/rexx-curl
> net/nepenthes
> security/authforce
> - #ifdef the obsolete options based on the libcurl version.
> 
> audio/xmms2
> - Fix the packing list for the !lastfm and !apple_mdns cases.
> 
> ftp/php4-curl
> ftp/php5-curl
> - #ifdef more obsolete options based on their definitions, as is already
>   done for CURLOPT_MUTE.
> - Not sure how to proceed with the PORTREVISION here, and also in
>   www/pecl-pecl_http - it seems that it is not customary for a PHP extension
>   to have a different PORTREVISION from the main port?
> 
> irc/unreal
> - Remove the dependency on dns/ares - it is not used at all, Unreal uses
>   its own bundled copy of c-ares!
> - Add a dependency on dns/c-ares, now that version 1.3.2 of the port comes
>   with the ares_config_info patch.
> - Patch the configure script not to build the bundled c-ares, and
>   the Makefile not to try to link against it.
> 
> security/gnupg
> - Add an explicit library version number to the curl dependency.
> 
> www/osb-nrcit
> - Update blindly, it does not build because lang/osb-jscore is broken.
> 
> x11/ecore
> - Fix the packing list for the !x11 case.
> 
> I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions for this update; thanks in
> advance!
> 
> G'luck,
> Peter
> 
> 

Nice work peter, looks good to me. It may be wise to run them all
through a tinderbox. :)

- -Frank
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