[PATCH] upgrade Bash port to version 4.1.

Jerry freebsd-ports.user at seibercom.net
Tue Apr 13 10:40:29 UTC 2010


On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:23:00 -0700, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org>
articulated:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Bash 4.1 seems stable enough at PL5 to replace version 4.0 in
> '/usr/ports/shells/bash'.
> 
> Does anyone feel that we need a "shells/bash40" port?
> (please just let me know if you feel we do, not if you feel we don't)
> 
> The patch below is the upgrade to 4.1.  It works on the workstation
> undermydesk, but maybe not the one underyourdesk.  Please let me know
> in the next few days if you will have trouble with the updated Bash
> port.

I don't see any reason to keep it around. In reality, it just clutters
up the ports system with more deprecated software. In any case, "4.1"
corrects a few problems in the older version. I believe it is at patch
level 5 now, as your patch indicates.

Just my 2¢.

-- 
Jerry
FreeBSD-Ports.user at seibercom.net

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