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

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:10:25 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>> > 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!

It's ports/64066, which it's only two ports to make the change on 
pkg-message on the fly.

Cheers,
Mezz


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