ports registering services in /etc/services and services_mkdb

[Olli Hauer]

On 2012-06-07 16:46, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 07:37 AM, Olli Hauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> during an update to 8.3 I notice mergemaster from 8.3 is
>> building a database from /etc/services with services_mkdb.
>>
>> However the ports framework does not provide an automation
>> to rebuild this database, even I haven't seen any port which
>> triggers a rebuild.
> 
> Ports should not be adding entries to /etc/services.
> 
> Doug
> 

I don't think it is practical to patch all the ports like
like bacula , spamd and others to not use getservbyname
and hardcode the required ports?