FreeBSD Port: sysutils/zrep / ksh93

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 04:29:40AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> 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!
pdksh (and its OpenBSD update) is quite different from the authentic ksh93.
I think that only the github' att/ast variant is feasible as a replacement.