FreeBSD Port: sysutils/zrep / ksh93

[Miroslav Lachman]

Kurt Jaeger wrote on 2017/04/22 04:29:
> 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.

Here they are:
http://freebsd.quip.cz/ports/distfiles/ksh93/INIT.2013-05-24.tgz
http://freebsd.quip.cz/ports/distfiles/ksh93/ast-ksh.2012-08-01.tgz

>> 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!

I will try it.

Miroslav Lachman