On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:35:00AM +0000, kre@munnari.OZ.AU wrote:
> >Number:         36259
> >Category:       pkg
> >Synopsis:       sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    pkg-manager
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Wed May 02 07:35:00 +0000 2007
> >Originator:     Robert Elz
> >Release:        NetBSD 3.99.15   (pkgsrc current within past 12 hours)
> >Organization:
> 	Prince of Songkla University
> >Environment:
> System: NetBSD jade.coe.psu.ac.th 3.99.15 NetBSD 3.99.15 (GENERIC-1.696-20060125) #8: Wed Jan 25 04:59:39 ICT 2006 kre@jade.coe.psu.ac.th:/usr/obj/current/kernels/JADE_ASUS i386
> Architecture: i386
> Machine: i386
> >Description:
> 	With PKG_DEVELOPER set (as is the default when using pkg_comp,
> 	which is what I do), pkgsrc checks scripts in packages for
> 	use of (truly idiotic) "test x == y" type commands that are
> 	apaprently becoming common in some mutant universe.
> 
> 	sysutils/xentools30 is (again) failing that test.
> 
> 	"Again" as an earlier PR was files against an earlier version
> 	of this package.   The solution at the time was to simply
> 	turn off the tests (the scripts in question, then, not being
> 	used or installed on NetBSD anyway).
> 
> 	That now looks to have been a mistake - much better to fix the
> 	scripts, and send the fixes back upstream, so the turkeys who
> 	perpetrate this nonsense can learn how test should be used,
> 	and this problem may decrease over time, instead of magnifying.

They certainly don't care as they're developing for linux/bash;
and I certainly won't spend time fixing scripts that are linux-specific
anyway. And I'll reject any fix that add more stuff to patches/ than
necessary.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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