FreeBSD Port: sysutils/zrep / ksh93

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> >>> can you please update port sysutils/zrep to current version?
> >>> GitHup repo https://github.com/bolthole/zrep has version 1.7.1 with many
> >>> fixes and improvements.
> >>
> >> Hm, it looks like zrep depends on shells/ksh93, which is missing
> >> from all MASTER_SITES. Do you still have the ksh93 distfile at hand ?
> >
> > Ups, it is strange, I installed zrep and ksh93 about one week ago
> > without problem.
> >
> > Sure, I have these files:
> >
> > # ll /vol0/poudriere/distfiles/ksh93/*
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   383979 May 24  2013
> > /vol0/poudriere/distfiles/ksh93/INIT.2013-05-24.tgz
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2053532 Aug  7  2012
> > /vol0/poudriere/distfiles/ksh93/ast-ksh.2012-08-01.tgz
> >
> > Should I post them somewhere?

Yes, please.

> Regarding to unavailable original sources... I found this discussion
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246338/is-the-shell-ksh93-dead
> 
> Maybe it's time to move to another version of ksh:
> 1) OpenBSD maintained version
> 	http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ksh/
> 2) GitHub clone of AT&T version ksh93
> 	https://github.com/att/ast/tree/master/src/cmd/ksh93

Patches to update the ksh93 port to use one of those so are very welcome!

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